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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where exactly does the Bible prohibit contraception anyway? What is the biblical basis? [/quote]

1.  Assert the Church's ultimate authority on the matter.
2a. Define married love as God's design for bringing new life into the world.  Omit other possible purposes for married love.
2b. Elaborate on this by listing a bunch of positives about marriage:  It is fully human, exclusive, faithful, enriching, and the path to happiness - and then tack on this zinger: "Marriage and conjugal love are by their nature ordained toward the procreation and education of children. Children are really the supreme gift of marriage and contribute in the highest degree to their parents' welfare."  A footnote should justify that.
2c. Having established this as God's order, tell couples they must use reason and will to combat their desires so that they can support this order.  If anyone starts saying "hey, what?" reply that "the very nature of marriage makes this clear".  It's obvious!
2d. At this point a few of you (!) might get scared you are going to have too many babies.  Not so because "God has wisely ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive births are already naturally spaced through the inherent operation of these laws."  Natural Law will protect you.

From there you keep repeating that procreation is fundamental to the marriage act

then ban artificial birth control.

Then counter those who feel this restricts personal freedom by defining chastity as the true liberty vs. the false liberty of sex without pregnancy

Tell the politicians what to do

Tell the scientists what to do

Acknowledge that this is hard, tell the husbands to be good to their wives,

Tell the doctors and nurses what to do

Remind the priests that this is an order

and the bishops

Close by reminding everyone that true happiness only comes from following the will of God, as defined here

There, I have outlned Humanae Vitae

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