Birth Control

[boppaid]

I voted condoms, but that’s not too accurate. Actually, my husband has had a vasectomy. I picked condoms because it is ABC, but has no hormones like the pill.

 

[CRW]

NFP is birth control. It regulates birth by monitoring the natural periods of fertility and infertility that God designed into women. The Church officially teaches that couples should have (depending upon the Latin translation) “just” “grave” or “serious” reasons if they try to avoid pregnancy. If such reasons exist, the couple may use NFP licitly and avoid relations during the woman’s fertile times.

On the other hand, artificial birth control (aka contraception or ABC) for the purpose of avoiding pregnancy on the other hand is objectively a mortal sin; ABC is always illicit. Persons in mortal sin should not recieve Holy Communion until they have repented and gone to confession.

There’s another thread without a poll discussing this survey: forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=119425

The Church and the USCCB calls it regulating vs. Birth Control but I do see you point. When couples use contraception, either physical or chemical, they suppress their fertility, asserting that they alone have ultimate control over this power to create a new human life. With NFP, spouses respect God’s design for life and love. They may choose to refrain from sexual union during the woman’s fertile time, doing nothing to destroy the love-giving or life-giving meaning that is present. This is the difference between choosing to falsify the full marital language of the body and choosing at certain times not to speak that language partial quote from the document released by the USCCB.

 

[kresbrook]

My husband & I just started using NFP, and it is the best choice we have ever made. It stopped our marriage from the downward spiral we were on.

We communicate more and I no longer see his advances as simply a means to pleasure; I feel truly respected for who I am. I recently lost about 70 pounds, and started to feel like our relations were simply physical for him. He has been so very supportive of my desire to use NFP, that I know now that this wasn’t true. He proved it to me in a way that words never could have.

NFP saved our marriage!!