Defending NFP against contraception

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Hi folks, I’m kinda in a pickle right now.

Lately I’ve been talking to my parents about Natural Family Planning and its benefits versus the evils of contraception. As the oldest son at the age of 20, my parents are no longer going to have children. However, neither of them think artifical birth control is wrong…how can I convince them that it is?
 
Convincing someone that ABC is wrong can be very difficult.

To this day I haven’t encountered a neatly packaged argument that is satisfying.

I have concluded that dissent from this teaching comes from a deeper problem with faith. That is of the person’s understanding of the teaching authority of the Church.

Beyond that, it seems to me that the only way I’m able to start wrapping my mind around why blocking sperm from ovum would be inherently evil is to meditate on this: Human life is sacred.

What does it mean when we say something is sacred?

How do we handle sacred things?

As an analogy I use the Eucharist. Because the Eucharist is so precious and sacred, those vessels used for holding It are set aside as sacred also.

The priest does not use the same Chalice for the Blood of Christ to hold his beer in on Friday night. Nor does he use the special bowl that carries the Body of Christ for porridge in the morning.

Most families have a special set of china that is used for special occasions. If that china gets used for ordinary meals, it no longer posseses the power to make the special meals visibly special. Indeed using ordinary plates can make a special meal ordinary.

So the very instruments that begin human life are to be set aside, and that purpose should never be taken from them.
 
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