Contraceptives

Again with the Pro-Life March coming up, it is important for Catholics to remember that the movement is not just to protect the unborn children from surgical abortions, but also from chemical ones. These chemical abortions include contraception. I know that many think that contraception is a way to lower the changes of getting diseases and unwanted pregnancy; however, if this is the goal of a sexual union, then it is not truly a union.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church Jesus taught that the marital union was willed by the Creator from the start of time and were to last for all of time (CCC 1614). The church also teaches in paragraph 1631 that the fulfillment of a faithful contract of marriage is required for many different reasons.
The purpose of these marriages is not only to bring two people together, but to imitate the Trinity (CCC 2335); this is done by the procreation of children. The marriage is also there to educate the children (CCC 2249). This idea is also repeated in paragraph 2263. Here we are told that the union is twofold, the transmission of life as well as the good of the spouses. It continues to proclaim these ideas cannot be separated from marriage without altering the spiritual life and the good of the family unit.
If you do not agree with my interpretation, please comment and I will be glad to defend the Church’s teachings. Though I am not highly educated in theology, I have been well taught by the Church. Also here are the quotes used from the Catechism.
As a side note, if you are a Catholic and you are reading this, remember if you are knowingly behaving in such a manner that contradicts the Church you are living in sin and should not be partaking in the sacraments of the Church until you make things right with Her and God.

Contraception
Original meaning 1614
1614
In his preaching Jesus unequivocally taught the original meaning of the union of man and woman as the Creator willed it from the beginning: permission given by Moses to divorce one's wife was a concession to the hardness of hearts.106 The matrimonial union of man and woman is indissoluble: God himself has determined it: "what therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder."107
As a state of life in the Church 1631
1631
This is the reason why the Church normally requires that the faithful contract marriage according to the ecclesiastical form. Several reasons converge to explain this requirement:134
· Sacramental marriage is a liturgical act. It is therefore appropriate that it should be celebrated in the public liturgy of the Church;
· Marriage introduces one into an ecclesial order, and creates rights and duties in the Church between the spouses and towards their children;
· Since marriage is a state of life in the Church, certainty about it is necessary (hence the obligation to have witnesses);
· The public character of the consent protects the "I do" once given and helps the spouses remain faithful to it.
Ordered to the procreation and education of offspring 1652, 2249
1631
This is the reason why the Church normally requires that the faithful contract marriage according to the ecclesiastical form. Several reasons converge to explain this requirement:134
· Sacramental marriage is a liturgical act. It is therefore appropriate that it should be celebrated in the public liturgy of the Church;
· Marriage introduces one into an ecclesial order, and creates rights and duties in the Church between the spouses and towards their children;
· Since marriage is a state of life in the Church, certainty about it is necessary (hence the obligation to have witnesses);
· The public character of the consent protects the "I do" once given and helps the spouses remain faithful to it.
· 2249
· The conjugal community is established upon the covenant and consent of the spouses. Marriage and family are ordered to the good of the spouses, to the procreation and the education of children.

Marriage union of man and woman 2335, 2363
2335 Each of the two sexes is an image of the power and tenderness of God, with equal dignity though in a different way. The union of man and woman in marriage is a way of imitating in the flesh the Creator's generosity and fecundity: "Therefore a man leaves his father and his mother and cleaves to his wife, and they become one flesh."121 All human generations proceed from this union.122
2363
The spouses' union achieves the twofold end of marriage: the good of the spouses themselves and the transmission of life. These two meanings or values of marriage cannot be separated without altering the couple's spiritual life and compromising the goods of marriage and the future of the family.The conjugal love of man and woman thus stands under the twofold obligation of fidelity and fecundity.