My Advice To The Newlywed

by Brian J. Kopp, DPM

My advice to the newlywed:

While you’re young, use your head!

Have a baby...

Have a few!

I don’t mean just one.

Or even two.

How about four?

How about eight?

(Making babies is really great!)

Don’t worry about college.

Don’t worry about clothes.

Their every need God already knows.

And when you’re old,

in time of need,

with no more clamoring mouths to feed,

look to those you two made.

To be your comfort.

To be your aid.

Your children today are your greatest treasure.

You will receive in the amount you measure.

God’s greatest gift to husband and wife?

A newborn child!

An eternal life!

Condoms have a 10 to 15% failure rate. Why use jellies, jams, and dams when you can do it God's way and get better results, while avoiding mortal sin?

The Catholic Church supports the most effective, inexpensive, and safe method known to modern science. The Sympto-thermal method of Natural Family Planning, not to be confused with the less effective rhythm method, has been proven to be 95 to 99% effective. An article in the British Medical Journal of March 1993 entitled "Natural Family Planning: Effective Birth Control Supported by the Catholic Church," states:

"Increasingly studies show that rates equivalent to those with other contraceptive methods are readily achieved . . . Indeed, a [World Health Organization] study of 19843 poor women in India had a pregnancy rate approaching zero [99.2%] . . . whatever the standpoint there is no doubt that it would be more efficient for the ongoing world debate on overpopulation, resources, environment, poverty, and health to be conducted against a background of truth rather than fallacy. It is therefore important that the misconception that Catholicism is synonymous with ineffective birth control is laid to rest. Understanding the simple facts about the signs of fertility confers considerable power to couples to control their fertility, for achieving as well as preventing conception."

Unfortunately, the multi billion dollar contraception and abortion industry would suffer greatly from just such knowledge in the hands of couples. Therefore, they and their advocates have a vested interest in keeping the knowledge of the effectiveness of Natural Family Planning from the masses who would otherwise buy their products and obtain their abortion services. The derision of the Catholic Church and her teachings, and the insinuation that Natural Family Planning is inherently ineffective, serves to protect this vast industry.

Once I teach a woman the art of Natural Family Planning, I may never see her again. There is no monetary gain for me. I will never get paid for an office visit to renew a prescription or a surgical fee to implant a device or to "fix" reproductive organs that were not broken, in order to cause sterility. But I have given her a power, an independence, and a freedom of choice she will never receive in a contraception or abortion clinic.