{"id":1464611,"date":"2022-05-05T08:00:25","date_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464611"},"modified":"2022-05-05T08:00:32","modified_gmt":"2022-05-05T12:00:32","slug":"sex-is-never-trivial-its-a-life-and-death-act","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sex-is-never-trivial-its-a-life-and-death-act\/","title":{"rendered":"Sex Is Never Trivial, It\u2019s A Life And Death Act"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsex-is-never-trivial-its-a-life-and-death-act%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1464611&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/pexels-cottonbro-6474007.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With the scandalous leak of a majority draft opinion indicating that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em> came the predictable rekindling of the debate about the morality of ending human life in the womb, but this endless back-and-forth skirts a deeper issue.<\/p>\n<p>The left is <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/03\/the-demonic-left-will-stop-at-nothing-including-destroying-the-supreme-court-to-kill-babies\/\">clinging for dear life<\/a> to the barbaric procedure they\u2019ve euphemized as a \u201cwoman\u2019s right to choose,\u201d although even the president of the United States admitted after the leak that abortion isn\u2019t just a \u201cclump of cells\u201d or \u201cfetus\u201d that\u2019s being \u201cterminated.\u201d It\u2019s the intentional killing of a \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JenniferJJacobs\/status\/1521513083088388096?s=20&#038;t=kUojmmwt8e-x0keJMacfcw\">child<\/a>.\u201d Meanwhile, for the right, <em>Roe<\/em>\u2018s impending demise marks a victory for human life that been nearly 50 years in the making, plus the next uphill battle of protecting life in each state.<\/p>\n<p>One reason that fight will always be uphill is that although abortion is an issue of monumental importance, it\u2019s still just the ugly, rotten fruit of the real problem. Digging down to the root unearths the gnarly source of America\u2019s murderous ecosystem: our perverted sexual ethic.<\/p>\n<p>The design for sex, ordained by the Creator Himself since the dawn of Earth in Eden, is that it belongs in marriage alone in a covenant between one man and one woman until death. Only in that context can sex be what God intended: a mutual self-sacrificing that is complete, unconditional, faithful, and ultimately fruitful. Although subduing the ground and bringing children into the world became painful with man\u2019s rebellion, the aim of marriage and sex remained: \u201cBe fruitful and multiply.\u201d But oh, how we\u2019ve strayed.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s easy to trace the degeneracy of America\u2019s sexual mores. The sexual revolution of the 1960s and \u201970s is a good place to start, with the advent of the pill, the second wave of feminism, and the so-called golden age of porn. All of these paved the way for the gay rights movement, <em>Roe v. Wade<\/em>, and the brave new world of sex without children. <\/p>\n<p>That was the whole point, of course. It was the womb that kept women from things like education and careers, according to the revolutionaries, so women came to despise our own bodies and the unique functions they perform. <\/p>\n<p>Then along came the pill and took contraceptive power out of men\u2019s hands and placed it in women\u2019s. As PBS <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/wgbh\/americanexperience\/features\/pill-birth-control-pill\/\">characterized<\/a> the pill, \u201cmost revolutionary of all, it separated reproduction and contraception from the sexual act.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s that illusion of separation \u2014 between sex and reproduction \u2014 that\u2019s evolved to form our modern sexual landscape, which the left cheers as progress with words like \u201cfreedom,\u201d \u201cchoice,\u201d \u201cliberation,\u201d and \u201cempowerment.\u201d It manifests in the soft porn of streamed entertainment, open relationships and even marriages, hookup culture and casual sex, and ultimately unplanned pregnancy and the decision to kill children rather than embrace the responsibilities associated with having sex.<\/p>\n<p>I call it an illusion because there is no real separation between sex and reproduction. Unlike contraceptives, here\u2019s the pill nobody wants to swallow: No pill or scrap of latex, no carefree intention, no careful timing, and no regret can completely remove children from the sex equation. Pregnancy is always a possibility. <\/p>\n<p>We must confront this because it\u2019s inherent in our culture\u2019s propensity to murder our own young. Behind the veil of abortion is the inescapable reality that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaschuta\/status\/1521549072057966592\">sex is deeply consequential<\/a> \u2014 emotionally, physically, and spiritually \u2014 and until we are honest about the true costs of sex, we will never escape the terrors of abortion.<\/p>\n<p>Thus it\u2019s in the bedroom, not after a positive pregnancy test, that \u201cchoice\u201d is not only an option but a responsibility. Sex is almost always a decision, and while the pro-abortion camp at this point screams \u201crape\u201d and \u201cincest\u201d as a catch-all retort, those sinful realities only underscore the inextricability of sex and reproduction and emphasize <em>men\u2019s<\/em> responsibility to choose protecting women over dominating them. Abortion does nothing but absolve men of that duty, reinforcing to them that they can exploit women without consequence.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, and contrary to the endless lies of our culture, abortion doesn\u2019t take away the consequences of sex. It merely changes them. Whereas the consequence of sex might be filling our wombs, the attempt to escape it terrorizes our souls.<\/p>\n<p>But it doesn\u2019t have to be this way. Sex is a beautiful and gracious gift. Enjoyed within God-given parameters, the spiritual, physical, and emotional consequences of sex become oneness, intimacy, and the bonds of trust in marriage, an institution so important in God\u2019s design that it bookends Genesis and Revelation.<\/p>\n<p>Because the ultimate aim of the marriage bed is to be fruitful and multiply, the consequences of sex are not a threat to be escaped, but a calling to embrace with all the stability and comfort that a nuclear family can provide better than any other arrangement. As C.S. Lewis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.novelforfree.com\/mere-christianity_chapter_chapter-16_2836_230.html\">explained<\/a> in \u201cMere Christianity\u201d: <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union. The Christian attitude does not mean that there is anything wrong about sexual pleasure, any more than about the pleasure of eating. It means that you must not isolate that pleasure and try to get it by itself, any more than you ought to try to get the pleasures of taste without swallowing and digesting, by chewing things and spitting them out again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Our progressive culture endlessly lies that the way to be liberated is to separate the trivial act of sex from its reproductive function and indulge without apology. It\u2019s in rejecting this illusion of separation, however, that we find true freedom and embrace real choice. There\u2019s nothing trivial about sex. Its consequences are life and death. <\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Kylee Zempel is an assistant editor at The Federalist. She previously worked as the copy editor for the Washington Examiner magazine and as an editor and producer at National Geographic. She holds a B.S. in Communication Arts\/Speech and an A.S. in Criminal Justice and writes on topics including feminism and gender issues, religious liberty, and criminal justice. Follow her on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kyleezempel\">@kyleezempel<\/a>.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the scandalous leak of a majority draft opinion indicating that the Supreme Court is poised to overturn Roe v. 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