Predictions of Humanae Vitae

The Population Research Institute blogged this list of predictions from Pope Paul VI encycical Humanae Vitae:
1. Contraception would lead to conjugal infidelity.
2. Contraceptive practice would lead to a “general lowering of morality.”
3. Contraception would lead men to cease respecting woman in their totality and would cause them to treat women as “mere instruments of selfish enjoyment” rather than as cherished partners.
4. And finally, widespread acceptance of contraception by couples would lead to a massive imposition of contraception by unscrupulous governments.

You might wonder how Pope Paul VI could have been so precient as to predict these things with such accuracy.  It is simple.  He studied natural law.  Our Declaration of Independence speaks of the adherance to the "Law of Nature and of Nature's God."  The laws of nature cannot be violated without adverse consequence to individuals and to society.  The relationships of male and female and the regeneration of society have been ordered by nature in accordance with the natural means of human procreation.  Contraception discards the natural means of procreation and replaces it with an artifice.  The predictable result is the destruction of the normal relations between the sexes and of the bonds of society.  To reorder society we need to understand that liberty exists within law; "freedom" outside law is chaos.