- Question
Is there ever a responsibility to use contraception?
As people globally are having wider access to contraception, should we be evaluating how this has affected our wider moral thinking within society? To what extent, if at all, do we have accountability over having protected sex?
Position 1 of 2
Read this position →Yes, we do have a responsibility to use contraception
We have a duty to be cautious of our actions, if we do not take accountability over how and when we use contraception, this may lead to disastrous consequences.
Position 2 of 2
Read this position →No, we do not have a responsibility to use contraception
This position holds that there is no responsibility to use contraception. It argues that nature should be allowed to take its course — that we may choose to intervene but are under no obligation to — and notes that contraception is in some sense unnatural and never wholly reliable anyway.