The lesson is supposed to be one of self-discipline, rather than the "have it your way" with artificial assistance.

The Catholic Church has never been a "slave to fashion." It's goal is to provide a stability in times of flux where morality becomes challenged by convenience enhanced with technology, even if that technology is a latex bag with or without a user's manual.

I'm encouraged that despite the "free love contingent," the "having a child is an inconvenience, so let's kill it now" attitude, and the "it's merciful to kill the infirmed and old" expanding trend, that the Popes in my lifetime have been constant in the hope that humankind will try to live as creatures of discipline, rather than as free spirits of no conscience or self control.

Once that moral discipline diminishes, we become less human in all matters.