Many of us grew up with that rhetorical question that was meant to induce critical (and independent) thinking: "If everyone jumped off a bridge, would you?" (a favorite for teachers)

Our response was "No!" ...unless, of course, we were the smart alecks, then maybe the answer was "Maybe. Depends on [insert tone and smart aleck comment here]"

Well, I find it interesting (if not undesirable) that now, when many of us choose not to jump off the bridge of contraception (that it seems like everyone is jumping off of) that we are challenged or refuted in our decision. 

How is it that choosing the healthy and moral choice of not using contraception is now unacceptable or even condemnable (mostly I think because it's not conformable).

So here we are, not jumping off the bridge, and instead of being patted on the back by those who posed that first question to instill independent (as opposed to group thinking, or more accurately, bandwagon effect, which all would agree doesn't seem to involve much thinking), we are asked in effect the opposite form of that first rhetorical question: "Why aren't you jumping off the bridge? What's wrong with you?"

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*By extension, I think this logic/illogic could be applied to almost every decision that is not generally accepted and praised by what Pope John Paul II called our "culture of death."