First Argument: It is wrong to act contrary to love. Romantic love seeks one body union. Contraception acts against what romantic love seeks. So contraception is wrong.
This argument probably relies on the distinction between doing and refraining, as without this distinction it would seem to condemn abstinence along with contraception. But abstinence is not a positive action, but a refrain. Contraception requires a positive action acting against what romantic love seeks. The distinction between killing and letting die is also an example of this distinction. Abstinence is non-unitive while contraception is anti-unitive.
Second Argument: Acts that undermine a person’s integrity are wrong. To prevent intercourse from attaining its goal is to oppose one’s body while the body strives for the consummation. It is a going back on that love, which is against integrity.
Third Argument: A person becomes disunited with their body when they contracept. They are acting against the goal that their body is acting towards. And in sexual union, two persons are supposed to be united through their bodies. So in being disunited from their bodies, they are being disunited from each other.
Fourth Argument: In engaging in sex, a couple is presumably striving for feelings of closeness and union. But the feelings are being contradicted by the reality of a contraceptive act that acts against this striving. It’s deceptive and undermines the value of intercourse.
Fifth Argument: It is wrong to act against basic human goods. Life is a basic human good. Contraception acts against the good of life by having an intentional prevention of the coming into existence of human life as one of its goals.
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