Since the time when I was a girl, the Catholic Church has been encouraging organic means (e.g., "rythym method") to not getting pregnant. Always made perfectly good sense to me.And the "rhythm method" has been significantly refined. Natural Family Planning (NFP), followed correctly, now successfully prevents conception as well as barrier and chemical methods.
Egads, thanks for posting the correct spelling of "rhythm". And the newer information surrounding the "rhythm" method. I was at a young age when the "original" feminist book "Our Body, Our Selves" came out. And it did not follow organic natural common-sense understandings for females; but rather the feminist politboro mentality. Rather unfortunate, IMHO, as it has perpetrated a third-person "room with a view" perspective for females as opposed a genuine understanding of a woman's body and its ability to procreate as something quite miraculous. And how truly unique each woman's body is.
I still cannot understanding how anyone could possibly think The Pill or EST, cookie cutter style, could apply to the individual woman. Each woman's body is so uniquely ... unique.