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Well, I’ve been reading a few of the other threads regarding artificial birth control and I have a few questions. I asked these questions on another thread and didn’t get an answer.
  1. What are the forms of artificial bc?
  2. If someone used bc (pill) in the past, but didn’t know it was a sin…Is it still a sin?
  3. Are there any methods of bc that arn’t a sin?
 
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anjel13:
Well, I’ve been reading a few of the other threads regarding artificial birth control and I have a few questions. I asked these questions on another thread and didn’t get an answer.
  1. What are the forms of artificial bc?
  2. If someone used bc (pill) in the past, but didn’t know it was a sin…Is it still a sin?
  3. Are there any methods of bc that arn’t a sin?
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  1. pill, iud, spermicidal creams, lots of other versions of the afore mentioned…
  2. no
  3. Natural Family Planning
i’m sure you will here more… 👍
 
The answer to your question #2 is, Yes. It is still a sin. However, if you did not know it to be a sin, you are not culpable.
 
one of my favorite comic strips, but that is another thread. learn from my generation, we believed the lies about contraception, we have paid the price in devastation in our marriages and families, loss of intimacy, and spiritual fallout from failure to trust in God that affects every area of family life. Trust in God.
 
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anjel13:
Well, I’ve been reading a few of the other threads regarding artificial birth control and I have a few questions. I asked these questions on another thread and didn’t get an answer.
  1. What are the forms of artificial bc?
  2. If someone used bc (pill) in the past, but didn’t know it was a sin…Is it still a sin?
  3. Are there any methods of bc that arn’t a sin?
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  1. Barriers (incl.condoms and diaphrams), spermicides, birth control pills, IUD’s, depro-provera, norplant, RU 486, sterilization (vasectomy or tubal ligation), and withdrawal.
  2. Mercygate was correct, sins are sins no matter what the circumstance, but if you were not aware that it was a sin you are not culpable (or personally guilty).
  3. Check into NFP (Natural Family Planning).
 
One should consider confessing the use of artificial birth control if they now know it was an objective sin, even if they have no culpability.

Also, Natural Family Planning can be a contraceptive if used inappropriately–without just cause (serious reasons) to avoid.
 
Another point to remember about #2, if you didn’t know but SHOULD have known, you may still be culpable. The Church calls it Culpable Ignorance. A examples would be if you kind of knew the Church had an issue with Birth Control but never tried to find out the truth or if your parish offered NFP classes as part of pre cannaa but you didn’t go.

Another good reason to bring it up in confession and be done with it. 👍
 
Here’s a question:

What if someone has had a tubal ligation or vasectomy and then converts to the Catholic Church? What do they do then?
 
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leschornmom:
Here’s a question:

What if someone has had a tubal ligation or vasectomy and then converts to the Catholic Church? What do they do then?
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A reversal is not required, although some attempt it. I have heard of a physician who used to perform abortions but since his conversion now donates time to do these reversal surgeries for others who have “seen the light.”
 
What if a doctor prescribes bc pill for medical reasons that have nothing to do with preventing pregnancy?
 
What if a doctor prescribes bc pill for medical reasons that have nothing to do with preventing pregnancy?
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This is going to depend on a lot of things. First, there are very few medical conditions for which BCPs are the best option. They are easy for the doctor to prescribe and are sometimes offered as a first rather than a last resort. They often mask the symptoms and the women ends up with more problems later. I am a good example. I had continuous bleeding for over 3 years. The doctors tried 10 different BCP prescriptions, sure it was “hormonal”. It turned out to be a badly placed fibroid and once that was removed, all was well.

If BCP is really the best choice and the woman is single and chaste, no problem. For a married woman, she can also take BCPs to treat medical conditions. The woman should know that one of the actions of BCPs is to keep a newly conceived baby from implanting and an early miscarriage results. A woman in this position should take licit precautions not to conceive.
 
  1. If someone doesn’t know what they are doing is a sin, they are not sinning.
Catholics have their own special way of having families: Natural Family Planning! No abortions, nothing that secular people would probably consider to be ‘birth control’.

Have a blessed All Souls Day!
 
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anjel13:
Well, I’ve been reading a few of the other threads regarding artificial birth control and I have a few questions. I asked these questions on another thread and didn’t get an answer.
  1. What are the forms of artificial bc?
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The word “artificial” is the key.
Any device/barrier (InterUterine Device, Condom, Diaphram),

Chemical (Spermicide, Oral Contraceptive, Morning After Pill, Depo-Provera, etc.),

or Surgery (vasectomy or tubal ligation - for the express purpose of rendering a healthy organ infertile),

that renders the marital act infertile in its completion or consequence.
  1. If someone used bc (pill) in the past, but didn’t know it was a sin…Is it still a sin?
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Culpability for a sin is a pastoral question, and should be answered in a private meeting with a priest - not on an internet chat board. That being said, the use of contraception, with full knowledge of it’s sinfulness, does constitute a “mortal” sin because it is a “serious matter”, and requires a “full consent of the will” to do it effectively. If this is literally a Church teaching you have never heard before, I don’t know that you could assume that you have “mortally” sinned. It is a question that can only be answered by a spritual advisor, or more specifically, a Catholic Priest.
  1. Are there any methods of bc that arn’t a sin?
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No. All “artificial” methods of “birth control” are illicit. Some claim that Natural Family Planning can be used like contraception, but it involves a different sin than contracepting, and requires a different discussion with your spiritual advisor.

The short answer is that, NO, all methods of “birth control” as this culture knows it are illicit.
 
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anjel13:
Well, I’ve been reading a few of the other threads regarding artificial birth control and I have a few questions. I asked these questions on another thread and didn’t get an answer.
  1. What are the forms of artificial bc?
  2. If someone used bc (pill) in the past, but didn’t know it was a sin…Is it still a sin?
  3. Are there any methods of bc that arn’t a sin?
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  1. Everything other than using abstinence when you do not want to become pregnancy is contraception (the amount of days that you must abstain can be minimized by learning to chart the female cycle and only abstain on certain days-- this is called NFP). So, anything that before, during, or after frustrates the fruit of a completed sexual act. Abstaining is not the same as contracepting.
  2. No. Sin reqires full knowledge and consent.
  3. Birth regulation using a method that charts a woman’s cycle, NFP, is allowed. It is not birth regulation and spacing that is sinful, but the method that is chosen to achieve this spacing/planning. Periodic abstinence is morally acceptable while contracepting is not.
 
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mercygate:
The answer to your question #2 is, Yes. It is still a sin. However, if you did not know it to be a sin, you are not culpable.
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By definition to sin requires full knowledge and consent. The act is still objectively wrong, gravely disordered, but committing a wrong act without knowledge of its sinfulness is not in itself a sin.
 
1ke,

You are correct when you are speaking of mortal sin. However according to the CCC an action can indeed be a venial sin without full knowledge or complete consent (emphasis mine).
1862 One commits venial sin when, in a less serious matter, he does not observe the standard prescribed by the moral law, or when he disobeys the moral law in a grave matter, but without full knowledge or without complete consent.
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So, again, the sacrament of confession is the best option.
 
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