Nick's Topic Idea - Birth Control

The moral debate over birth control is one that has no hope of ever being solved. Just because a topic will never see full resolution, does not make it pointless to debate. Even if as a society we cannot come to an agreement, we must always work to come up with the best possible solution that allows as many people as possible the freedom to follow their own beliefs.
At a Jesuit-university, my experiences with birth control have all been purely my own. I have not run across the free condom-dishes or sexual education programs so popular at public universities. Although the word of God serves to unite many people, it also has the potential to alienate and divide when the words must be interpreted and enforced.
It is a natural choice for a catholic-university to not condone birth-control. Even the largest proponent of birth control should be able to realize not handing out birth-control is a faith-based decision made by people largely trying to do what is best. According to this conservative belief-set, sex is not to take place anywhere except within marriage between a man and a woman with the intent of procreating. Birth-control can be seen as a mechanism of escaping individual responsibility to these core values set-down by the catholic church, and distributing birth-control is akin to aiding and abetting.
Although I have clearly presented a conservative faith-based view on birth-control, many more people sit in a camp that, for one reason or another, believes enforcement of the catholic doctrine towards birth-control is either inappropriate or unrealistic. This is standpoint can be taken both by those that believe in God but not the interpretation that God is against birth-control, and by those that believe although birth-control is morally wrong, imposing this view upon others is worse.
A final group of people at catholic universities find that issues of faith and sexual practices should be completely separated. Sometimes atheist, other times not, these people are not necessarily in agreement about the use of birth-control and its positive or negative effect on society, but they are united by their belief that faith should remain clear of the arguments both for and against.
I plan to explore the intercourse between elements of faith and issues of practicality between the forces at work in a Jesuit-university such as Santa Clara. I will be writing this exploration from a hopefully non-biased protestant-raised view, and attempting to analyze the strengths and follies of all sides while searching for a middle ground that might reconcile differences between the groups while making birth-control available for those that need it.