Copper IUD in marriage

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If the copper IUD which is hormone free birth control made of a natural resource (copper) and prevents sperm from meeting the egg, isn’t that somewhat acceptable in marriage? If a woman was on medication and could not conceive while being on medication due to the fact it could harm a unborn baby? Is it a mortal sin or a grave sin if it’s 100% unacceptable?
 
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It is not acceptable. The fact that it is “natural” in the way you are describing is not what that means in relation to contraception. If a woman is on medication for something other than birth control, but the medication keeps her from being able to conceive, that is allowed.
 
EVEN if the IUD were perfectly moral, it is still so dangerous. A perfed uterus is a very terrible thing. Should a child be conceived in spite of an IUD, they can have life altering birth defects. Honestly, I find it staggering that anyone would put themselves in this danger.
 
This was the third kind of BC my atheist sister tried that didn’t work. It came out with her son, who was fortunately very healthy. Since then, my sister uses NFP, though she doesn’t call it that.
 
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isn’t that somewhat acceptable in marriage?
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No.

Contraception is grave matter, and is intrinsically disordered. It is a sin against the sixth commandment.
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a woman was on medication and could not conceive while being on medication due to the fact it could harm a unborn baby?
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Then that woman would need to abstain from intercourse either periodically through conservative observation of fertility signs (NFP) or completely while on the medication.

Contraception is intrinsically evil, meaning it is not situational it is always wrong.
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Is it a mortal sin or a grave sin if it’s 100% unacceptable?
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Yes. It is grave matter.
 
Thanks for responding without attacking me for asking a question.
 
No contraception is acceptable in a catholic perspective.

For the Copper IUD, the argument that it may be acceptable because it is made of a “natural ressource” cannot work. Or condoms made from natural latex would be acceptable, or it is not. Natural method of family planning is acceptable not because it is a “natural” 'contraception" without hormones, but because it is not distorsed fertility and the way the conjugal act is done.

Copper IUD does not work only to prevent sperm from meeting the egg. Every provider which would only said that would give uncomplete information. We have to read notices and articles. It affects the uterine environnement. So the implantation of the embryo.
 
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An IUD acts as an abortifacient making the uterus unable to accept a fertilized egg for implantation. Basically it causes the abortion of babies at the very earliest days of conception.
 
The copper IUD makes the womb toxic to sperm, killing them before they can reach the ova.

Preventing implantation is the secondary method.
 
Copper IUDs and all other types of IUDs have a high rate of “post-fertilization loss” (i.e. abortifacient events) of one to two prenatals killed by the IUD per year of use.
Stanford and Mikolajczyk “Mechanisms of action of intrauterine devices: update and estimation of postfertilization effects.” American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 187.6 (2002): 1699-1708.

 
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