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I figure God made doctors that made contraception. Given the verses sighted so far, I don’t see where it is prohibited, but to each his own.

In the Songs of Solomon, sex was good thing for a husband and wife to enjoy. I like that.

After our last kids, we don’t want anymore. I’ve suffered enough miscarriages (3), then went on 10 weeks of bedrest with our natural twins, and then our twins almost died. One of our twins has brain damage.

I don’t want to be pregnant ever again, and I still want to be close to my husband.

You know, I’m a Catholic, and back when I was in college a priest described a situation very similar to yours in a couple he was counseling, but it was even worse: the doctors felt that if the woman, who had 3 children already, became pregnant again, the likelihood that she would carry the child to term was nearly nil, and the likelihood that she would not survive the pregancy was very high. I don’t remember exactly what illness she had that caused this.

But the couple came to the priest and asked him if it was still a mortal sin for them to use contraception for the rest of their reproductive years. The priest thought about it, prayed about it, and told them that his conscience didn’t allow him to agree with the Church’s teaching — that he felt the wrong would be in denying them the opportunity to express their love through sex. I think the priest has always felt a little guilty about telling them that (and I’m sure many of my co-religionists will say “he should”) but I think he was right.

Lawyers have a good aphorism for this kind of situation, “Hard cases make bad law,” as they always point out the exception to an otherwise good rule.

Refrain from moral relativism ad reductio absurdio... LOL!

God made doctors???? Since the Catholic Church operates more hospitals than the U.S. government and, interestingly, the Catholic Church can’t send a tank to your house if your behind in your tithing the way the govt can seize your properties if you don’t pay your taxes.

My stand is this. And it was the stand of all protestant churches pre-1930. Birth Control reduces the love of marriage to engaging in mutual masturbation. It also reduces a woman to a sex toy because she’s been degraded from “potential mother” to “semen depository” and folks, that’s a bust in rank.

Remember, if your using contraceptions, you can turn your back on evil and do good. It’s not a one strike and your out game.

Yours truly,
The Woim