Attended my RCIA class last night (I’m a team member but learning more than I can share) and the class was given by this wonderful couple who spoke about various Catholic beliefs regarding sexuality and marriage. After listening I would say it all boils down to the evil of contraception. NFP is so specific now that it has 98% accuracy and instead of using artificial chemicals and devices, it requires the couple to intentionally choose each time that they desire sex whether they want to have a child. The wife, when asked why it was that it seems that NFP couples do have more children, she said it was because the love and joy was so great in the relationship that they were so prolife and probaby that they had more children. She said that each of their four children were intentional. She also said that chemical contraception was actually a type of abortion since among other things, it renders the womb less receptive to implantation so that even if an egg slips by and is fertilized, it can implant or it does so imperfectly and then is miscarried. Just saying. It was interesting. Perhaps I can be more open to this at 64 than I was at 34.
NFP?
Planned Parenthood has been trying to deny what you have just surmised for years. It is true that the majority of these drugs render the womb less receptive to implantation. I was amazed to find out that there are also natural causes that induce this same effect sometimes and many females do not even know or realize. I learned all this while studying Todd Akin’s career killing comment on what he understood the research to show. After reading about so called “natural” occurrences, I can’t get the Monty Python sketch out of my mind about how every sperm is sacred.