Poll on Catholic Use and Beliefs Regarding Contraception

[JennaMarie77]

Using NFP puts life in God’s hands. Contraception takes it out of God’s hands and puts it in yours.

Using NFP is in effect, saying “Well, Father, I leave it up to you to decide whether our marital love will bless us with a child.”

Whe you use a prophylactic, you are hoping a child will not result. That’s pretty contemptable.

Picking and choosing days to be intimate to prevent conception is the same. It still is preventing conception.

 

[Deus_lo_vult]

Picking and choosing days to be intimate to prevent conception is the same. It still is preventing conception.

1. It is NOT the same because NFP does not rule out the possibility of conception.
2. If a prophylactic does its job, it will prevent conception with every use. You don’t use a prophylactic unless you are absolutely sure you do not want conception to occur.
3. Couples are taught by the Church that they are not to abuse NFP, it is only to be used occasionally.

 

[iloveangels]

Picking and choosing days to be intimate to prevent conception is the same. It still is preventing conception.

It’s not handing it over to a doctor to manage. The issue is that reproduction is not a medical activity. Not at all.

God is the author of life and he gives life along with the couple. When a child is conceived, it is his choice that it be conceived and he determines who the child should be. The married couple is supposed to have sense enough to know this.

I am a proponent of the Lamaze method. I required my doctors to keep their distance and give me only treatments that I really required at birth, which were few. Conception and birth are NOT medical events. They’re quite natural. People gave birth for thousands of years before medicine ever existed as a practice. All of my children are healthy, I am healthy and I suffered less discomfort at birth than most women because I understood the process and was able to manage it myself. Panic is what causes the pain.

Did my doctor have to stand by and wait like a technician? Yes, he did, to his chagrin. Because he is precisely only a technician when it comes to birth. He was there only in the unlikely case that something might go a little wrong, which actually happens less than 5% of the time.

**The big lesson here is that conception and birth are NOT medical events. **

Can you look at conception & birth with medical tools? Yes. You can look at bugs with medical tools, too. That doesn’t make them medical.
You can even take bugs apart with medical tools. That doesn’t make them medical either.
It does, however, make it possible to fool some people into paying you for doing it. This is a consumer society after all. Never forget that. Don’t be fooled.

 

[LemonAndLime]

It’s not handing it over to a doctor to manage. The issue is that reproduction is not a medical activity. Not at all.

God is the author of life and he gives life along with the couple.

I am a proponent of the Lamaze method. I required my doctors to keep their distance and give me only treatments that I really required at birth, which were few. Conception and birth are NOT medical events. They’re quite natural. People gave birth for thousands of years before medicine ever existed as a practice. All of my children are healthy, I am healthy and I suffered less discomfort at birth than most women because I understood the process and was able to manage it myself. Panic is what causes the pain.

What if something went wrong? Would you still think that medicine has no part in childbirth?

If the child’s life was in danger, would you refuse life-saving treatment from doctors during birth?

 

[iloveangels]

What if something went wrong? Would you still think that medicine has no part in childbirth?

If the child’s life was in danger, would you refuse life-saving treatment from doctors during birth?

Something “goes wrong” less than 5% of the time. Doctors scare patients because doctors want the birth process to be “efficient” and they don’t want to get sued.

I had my births in hospitals with staff standing by just in case, but I informed them that I probably wouldn’t need them and if I did I would call them. I was just going to give birth, and I KNOW HOW TO DO THAT. I don’t need them for that.

With each child, I turned the lights down low and gave birth like a hundred generations of my family have done before me. All successfully, because I’m here, aren’t I??? God was there with me and so was my husband. I was fine.

What’s more, I was able to hold the child right away, I did not have a headache and in each case, the child was awake. Of course, because the child wasn’t DRUGGED. I left the hospital as soon as I was allowed, because I didn’t belong there. Hospitals are for sick people and you can catch things in hospitals. I had arranged to have help with housework at home for a couple of days. IT was good.

The current rate for Caesarian section is about 33%, which means that about 28-30% of those are bogus, done for the convenience of the doctor, fear of lawsuits or to make money. Sometimes they’re done because the mother is so ignorant about her own body she’s scared witless and it makes her feel pain. Panic is what causes the pain.

 

[iloveangels]

You could make the case that crossing the street is a medical event because if you were hit by a bus, you’d need medical help. This is the kind of reasoning that you’re using, Lemon and Lime.

I’ll bet you don’t have a doctor standing by every time you cross the street. I don’t.

I do take reasonable and rational precautions. I have medical insurance just in case I do get hit by a bus, and of course I look both ways when I cross. And I made sure there was a doctor within calling distance during birth. That’s really all that was needed. It’s really all that’s needed in about 95% of cases.

If you think otherwise, you’ve been sold a very expensive and troublesome commercial product, one that can adversely affect the health of an otherwise healthy mother and child pair.

Conception and birth are NOT primarily medical events. Americans commercialize everything and this is no exception. But you don’t have to buy McBABY™. It’s your body.

 

[iloveangels]

The US ranks 39th in the world in infant mortality. We come in after Albania and Poland. And we’re not improving.

docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AonYZs4MzlZbdHp2SWFHbFJtcnpISk5ic3Z0S0l6clE#gid=0

If we counted all the children that are murdered by abortion, plus all the women who die during abortions, we would be farther down the list yet. According to Medscape, “abortion is one of the most common medical procedures performed in the United States each year.” On average 22% of all conceptions in the USA end in abortion. My ancestors were all English and we have a word for that, but I doubt that I can type it in here.

emedicine.medscape.com/article/252560-overview

 

[Dagmar86]

I’m a Catholic woman, I have never used contraception, I think it’s wrong.

 

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