Yes, and contraception isn’t full proof, either. I used to interpret and sometimes helped out with a women’s center. I can only assure you there was no lack of women who got pregnant who WERE using contraception, the pill, etc. One woman in particular comes to mind. She was telling me how she didn’t think this was even possible, to get pregnant while using the pill! She assured me she WAS using it, but got pregnant even so.
Do you mean YES she can use contraception? Because my understanding is that the catechism says only for severe medical purposes…not to prevent pregnancy. In this case she would be using it to prevent pregnancy and then that pregnancy would cause the medical problems.
its not that the medical purpose must be severe, its moreso that infertility must be an unintended side effect, it cannot be the goal.
Yes, thank you for that clarification. My wording does not always come out the way I imagine it in my head.
If the only or prime reason to use a contraceptive is to prevent pregnancy then the answer is no it is never permitted.
I have always been told that even to achieve a good, you cannot use a wrong to get there.
Its not wrong to use hormones for medical reasons, for example, even if those same hormones can also have a contraceptive side effect, so long as the contraceptive side effect is unwanted. Its called the principle of double effect, very different from using an evil means to achieve a good end. That is never permitted.I have always been told that even to achieve a good, you cannot use a wrong to get there.