Protestants & Contraception

[Tina]

“Surgical menopause” is a kind of nickname for what happens when a woman has a hysterectomy and also loses her ovaries. It’s sudden and unnatural and very uncomfortable. Are you being told to have a hysterectomy? Wanna take this to private messages?

Betsy

Hi Bestsy, Sorry I didn’t reply somer! I was out of town, to your Question! Yes, the doctor say something about hysterectomy, but I’am going to wait! love to keep every part of my body, I’am not ashame to talk about this! I have to go back in 3 months! please pray for me! I sure need it! if this is God will for me.

Tina

 

[pittsburghjeff]

Birth control is from the pit of hell.

For a good protestant work on the subject, check out The Bible and Birth Control by Charlie Provan.

 

[raphaela]

Well this might have been answered already but my fiance’s dad (a strong protestant, who doesn’t really believe in catholicism) says that protestants use a condom and catholics don’t. He believes that people shoudl be open to children, but not so open that it puts them in financial trouble to the point where they can’t be proper parents. to him, the right number is 2 or 3. It’s funny cause he knows I want to become catholic, and though he’s kinda anti-catholic, he thinks it’s great cause at least I’m something that has to do with God and not nothing at all.

 

[Tina]

raphaela:

Well this might have been answered already but my fiance’s dad (a strong protestant, who doesn’t really believe in catholicism) says that protestants use a condom and catholics don’t. He believes that people shoudl be open to children, but not so open that it puts them in financial trouble to the point where they can’t be proper parents. to him, the right number is 2 or 3. It’s funny cause he knows I want to become catholic, and though he’s kinda anti-catholic, he thinks it’s great cause at least I’m something that has to do with God and not nothing at all.

Your story is like mine, will for one my husband really will get mad at me, if I try to be come Catholic, things willn’t be pretty, I would love to have more kids! when I was young I did, now I’am getting to older to have more! We have 3 boys 24, 20, 11, I guess I’am to older, is 45 to old? just wondering?

 

[boz_9510]

protestants believe it is okay to allow the use of birth contorl. they believe this for many reasons and one of those is that if a womans health would be put at risk through giving birth then she should be allowed to have sex but not conceve and can i just say that i do not understand the feud between catholic and protestant? we all believe in the same god and we all worship him and love him and we all belive that jesus died for us, isnt the main thing that we worship god, try not to sin and enjoy the life he has given us instead of the constant “battle” ? x

 

[valient_Lucy]

These people are definitely in the minority among Protestants, but I’ve heard really excellent things about their book. Available from the Couple to Couple League (www.ccli.org), even though this info comes from Amazon:

From Publishers Weekly
For such a short book, Open Embrace: A Protestant Couple Rethinks Contraception packs some serious punches. Authors Sam and Bethany Torode argue that all married Christians, not just Roman Catholics, need to seriously examine the widespread usage of contraception, which they feel is against God’s plan for creation. (Pregnancy is not a disease, they assert. Why vaccinate against it?) While supporting Natural Family Planning, which they define as informed abstinence, they also make a particularly uncompromising case for stay-at-home moms, which will probably irritate many readers. More controversially, they argue that a culture that worships sex without procreation will sacrifice its children through abortion, claiming that America’s increasing permissiveness about legalizing contraception in the 1960s led inexorably to Roe v. Wade in the 1970s. While it’s good to see some ecumenical diversity in the contraception debate, some of the basic arguments of this book are problematic.
Copyright 2002 Cahners Business Information, Inc.

Allow me to point out that the Tarodes recanted their position several years ago, and no longer support NFP.

 

[mommamaree]

Protestants have not learned that it is a sin to use contraception. They don’t promise to be open to have children when they mary in their protestant churches.

G.G.

As a convert to Catholicism, I think I might be able to amend your statement to make it more accurate:

“Protestants have not been taught that it is a sin to use contraception. However, many non-Catholic Christians have been led to the truth regarding contraception as they spiritually mature and continue to seek God’s will for their lives.”

I think that is much more accurate, and compassionate, to Protestants. Especially since I first came to understand how contrary to natural law the use of contraception is, and then was led to the Catholic church once I started learning about NFP.