Why stop or refuse to use, contraceptives?

[hasikelee]

Why did you stop using contraception? Or if you haven’t what are your reasons? For those practicing the Catholic faith, I understand that following Christ’s teachings are a reason. I am also interested in hearing of other reasons.

For example, I would not use contraception because I choose to follow my faith, but I also would never use contraception because chemical contraceptives are demeaning to women and dangerous to their health. The numbers also show contraception is poor “protection” from pregnancy and of course doesn’t protect from STDs or related psychopathologies.

Just curious if others have had epiphanies or private reasons to share. This got me to thinking, as recently a young coworker talked about how the Church is more right than she was willing to admit and she has also sworn off premarital sex=no contraception.

 

[jbuttrey]

The practice of being a channel for God’s grace when taken to fullness in parenthood means having the children God sends us.

This my paraphrase of the Catholic teaching on human sexuality in other words Theology of the Body from John Paul II.

This is the main reason I converted to the Catholic church which is the true church as it is the only Church standing up for this and many other critical parts of God’s truth.

I made the greatest chioce of my life to be a Catholic which continues to be a great blessing and many miracles continue to happen to me. Of courses I had to repent of Contracepting.

Christ is risen
John Buttrey
wbuttrey@gmail.com

 

[StCsDavid]

I stopped using contraceptives after realizing their hidden evil and determined that their source is indeed diabolic.

I covered this in a little more detail in my blog a few months ago when discussing Plan-B.

 

[tamccrackine]

When I was 16, I was put on the pill with little to no knowledge of the ill effects and with a liberal/pro-abortion Catholic mother, I certainly never knew they were against the Church (didn’t learn of it until I was in my late 20’s). I had severe menstrual cramps and my mother told my doc to put me on them. I was not sexually active but being on the pill made me feel like a cheap street walker. I didn’t feel good on them, and something just kept telling me they were wrong. So I stopped taking them.

I used condoms for the first few years with my DH, thinking we were doing the right thing. I never liked them, thought it killed the moment and if felt as if there was a barrier between me and my DH. Then I learned how wrong they were. So I picked up on NFP and I just told DH we weren’t using condoms anymore.

I’ve since become a promoter for NFP and while I’m still working on getting my DH to trust NFP (he’s not Catholic), we don’t use contraceptives anymore.

So although my biggest reason is because it’s against the Church, I just don’t feel right using them. And now that I know all the chemical problems, etc, I’m less inclined to return to them, kwim?

 

[LittleDeb]

As some here may already know, it was the contraception issue that brought me back in full union with the Church. Through fornication, fertility issues, and studying contraception from a medical perspective that I found out the Church was right.

I studied up on contraception from a secular point of view. I wanted it to be “freeing for women,” and “good for marriage.” I proved the opposite from secular resources. I finally read, Fertility, Cycles, and Nutrition, by Marilyn Shannon and my eyes were completely opened.

Almost immediately God sent my husband, a non-Catholic at the time, and we studied charting through NFP. We found that putting our entire sexuality in God’s hands was actually “freeing for women” and “good for marriage.” We are now married, he is Catholic, we have a miracle son, and we are promoters of NFP. Please pray for us as we try to conceive again.

 

[Teakafrog]

As soon as I found out that the pill is an abortifacient, that was it for me! Of course at that time I was making my journey into the Church, so even though I wasn’t 100% I agreed with it, I began to follow Church teaching. Now I see the wisdom in this teaching, and will never again use any form of ABC. Also, I had horrible side effects from the hormones, it threw me into full-blown PCOS, which caused infertility when I did want kids. The more I learn about it, the worse I see it is for women’s bodies. Horrible stuff.

 

[kim3260]

First I never used it because of my Faith, with that said my second reason is because I don’t want all those artificial hormones in my body.

 

[Randy_Carson]

From the Catechism of the Catholic Church:
2370 …In contrast, “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil…

Intrinsically evil?

That was it for me.

 

[Traci]

Through fornication, fertility issues, and studying contraception from a medical perspective that I found out the Church was right.

We found that putting our entire sexuality in God’s hands was actually “freeing for women” and “good for marriage.”

Hi LittleDeb,

I had to quote you because this is exactly how I feel about it

I voted for the option “because the Church teaches it” and that was the initial reason that I stopped contracepting, but it lead me on a path of discovery of my fertility and God’s beautiful plan for me as a woman and I haven’t looked back since! My husband and I are TRULY blessed to have had the grace to accept the Church’s teaching not only because it comes from the Church but because now we understand WHY it teaches what it does and it is so incredibly beautiful! It wasnt’ until I gave up forcing my own will that I was given the grace to understand God’s true plan for me and my womanhood:thumbsup: