[Eagle of Liberty]

Are you asking rhetorical questions, or working through this?

Well, my post in #2 was a legit question. Now, I am working through this. This is a topic which is heavy on my heart right now and I am not looking for an easy way out. I am simply working through what is going to be best for me and my family.

I don't think we can infer that God gave us the fertile/infertile cycle so we could use it

Why not? Not to be a smart-butt, but were we really ignorant of the fertility cycle for millenia? Early man could make fire and the wheel and observe celestial cycles, but could not figure out when a woman was most likely to conceive?

[VeritatisSplendor]

Yeah, we were ignorant.

The ovum wasn't discovered until mid-nineteenth century, rhythm in the twentieth, sympto-thermal method later in the twentieth.

Some women might have noticed that they conceived early in the cycle, when they were in the mood and the secretions were clear, and not when they were close to the period and not in the mood, but it wasn't generalized or publicized.

And women had fewer periods back then - nursing tends to stop them, and when the cycle starts up again - they're likely to be pregnant quickly. So fewer opportunities for observation there - but more opportunities for observation with more pregnancies, I guess.

Maybe when the human race suffered from dire poverty and early death and primitive medicine, we needed to have more babies, so God didn't let us find out about the cycle until later...but I am suspicious of interpreting design from every fact.

Mrs VS

[Tax-chick]

Not to be a smart-butt, but were we really ignorant of the fertility cycle for millenia?

Maybe men were.