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Patti Maguire Armstrong is the mother of ten children including two Kenyan AIDS orphans. She is a speaker and the author of Catholic Truths for Our Children: A Parent's Guide (Scepter). She is also the managing editor and co-author of Ascension Press's Amazing Grace book series. Her website is RaisingCatholicKids.com.

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>>A Challenging Truth, Part One: How Birth Control Works<<

Keep your pants on and it works just fine.

[samiam1972]

I took birth control when I was a teenager and in the very early years of my marriage. I was clueless about this stuff and about my faith. Hubby and I were a part of a young married couples group when a person came and talked to us about the pill. I cried all night and never took another pill. There was so much I didn’t know! I mourn for the possible children I may have lost during all those years and am eternally grateful for the four I now have.

I’ve found that for us, NFP has become pointless. We no longer worry about whether or not God will bless us with more children. After years of talking about how many kids we’d like to have and whether or not we could “afford” any more the discussion has naturally turned to the fact that we love them all so much, we’ll take as many as we can get.

[Salvation]

Thanks for posting this. I thought about posting it last night when I first saw it, but told myself I would wait until today. Now, it’s already up!

[Salvation]

More from the Catechism of the Catholic Church:

                From the Catechism of the Catholic Church (click on the book for the link.)    

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

 

2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality. These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, "every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible" is intrinsically evil:

Thus the innate language that expresses the total reciprocal self-giving of husband and wife is overlaid, through contraception, by an objectively contradictory language, namely, that of not giving oneself totally to the other. This leads not only to a positive refusal to be open to life but also to a falsification of the inner truth of conjugal love, which is called upon to give itself in personal totality. . . . The difference, both anthropological and moral, between contraception and recourse to the rhythm of the cycle . . . involves in the final analysis two irreconcilable concepts of the human person and of human sexuality.

[Yaelle]

Not going to insert myself in Catholic teachings but I just wanted to add that Jews consider the birth control pill to be a more g-dly form of birth control than the barrier methods. The reason is that sperm can still contact egg (theoretically) so nothing is coming between them. The pill is SUPPOSED to simply prevent the egg from ripening (doesn’t always work).

The progesterone in the pill does indeed make the uterine lining less hospitable for any embryo that happens to be created; however, poor uterine lining can occur in any woman and also be another cause of an early (often unknown) miscarriage.

Every month, a husband and wife trying to conceive could be having miscarriages and not know it. 30-90% of all of a woman’s eggs (varies by individual woman and of course by age) after the early 20s are no longer chromosomally compatible with existence (I am talking about making it to the 2nd trimester, not children born with Down Syndrome). Not everyone realizes this.

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