[Mrs. Don-o]

People who can't afford to feed, clothe, house and educate their children have a serious responsibility to avoid more births. Everybody agrees with that. Nobody's advocating unlimited childbearing for the poor in Mexico or anywhere else.

Couples who don't engage in contraceptive sex don't necessarily end up with 6 children. If in good conscience a couple realizes that they can't responsibly bear/raise any more kids because of ill health, poverty, etc. they can avoid more births by practicing Natural Family Planning. Mother Teresa's sisters have taught NFP to 10,000 poor couples in India, and you know what? It really works.

[LWalk18]

If NFP really works, then why do the calls for more children focus on artifical contraception? Even if people turned away from using artifical contraception in favor of NFP, wouldn't we have the same population problem in the West?