procreative

How To Use procreative In A Sentence

• Op Ed: Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
• Proscriptions on who may marry, such as preventing consanguine marriages, can be easily understood by referring to the procreative potential of marriage. Why are only queer rights on the chopping block?
• It could not be more clear that research must be conducted on the relative status of sexual intimacy in the minds of persons engaged in different kinds of procreative activity.
• Sex of course has a procreative function.
• In my opinion, it seems the theogonies of the ancient Near East have almost always had a procreative backdrop. Genesis: The Missing Chapters
• Catholic doctrine already upholds the sanctity of non-procreative, or what it calls "unitive" love in heterosexual marriage. Michele Somerville: Marriage Equality In New York: A Moral Triumph
• Whenever a population reaches a certain stage of civilisation and nervous development its procreativeness, quite apart from any effort of the will, tends to diminish. On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue
• What such sources do is present arguments, based on Scripture, Tradition, and natural law, that the "unitive" significance of sexual intercourse cannot be had without procreative significance. Same-sex marriage: back to square one
• Ironically Pope Paul's affirmation of the unitive and procreative goals of marriage set the scene for Pope John Paul II's theology of the body which speaks so powerfully to young adults today.
• To stem the devastating tide of human procreativeness, however, easy as it may seem in theory, is by no means so easy as some think, especially as those think who believe that the human race stands on the brink of suicide. On Life and Sex: Essays of Love and Virtue