Artificial birth control

[mark_a]

I am looking for Catholic information about the above which is suitable as educational material for my kids. I have one 13 year old the rest are younger.

I am particularly interested in info cocerning:

• non-barrier methods
• methods that prevent ovulation
• abortificants
• any combination of the above
• so called natural or herbal abortificants

I want to stack the deck against the above (including the barrier method, but that one’s pretty obvious and easy).

Thanks.

 

[Madia]

Here’s some information that might be helpful:
all.org/issues/brthcnt.htm

I suggest asking this question at EWTN.com under the “Pro-Life Issues” forum. You might get a better response there. You also might want to try a book such as “Theology of the Body for beginners”:
ewtn.com/vcatalogue/pages/itemdetail.asp?itemcode=5349&source=searchresult.asp&keyword=Theology+of+the+Body&g_than=1&l_than=2000&pgnu=1&category=all&eventcode=

I haven’t read the book so I don’t know for sure what ages it would be appropriate for.

 

[1ke]

www.omsoul.com has many resources.

 

[Fortiterinre]

mark a,

Last year’s Annals of Family Practice Medicine had an interesting bit on how standard estrogen/progesterone oral contraceptives were abortaficient anywhere from 3-30% of the time; even though the intent is to prevent ovulation, they work “too well” to be preventing just that. An interesting and completely secular source; the concern for them was that Catholics et al should know that “ovulation prevention” is rarely just that.