Thank you. I am somewhat understanding of the Catholic view. I have read some, and watched a presentation on the local Catholic channel.
However, and I don’t mean to be disrespectful, in my opinion if I accept the premise on which the prohibition of birth control is based, the exception for the use of natural rythms is inconsistent with that premise.
I see it as an understandable “line of demarcation” which allows the teaching to have effect, by giving an easy way out so people can obey the rule. If the rule was too hard, everybody would break it.
There is no deliberate frustration of the sex act with a natural form of birth control. And therein lies the difference. Contraception alters the nature of the sex act. Not having sex at a certan time does nothing to the sex act.
A husband and wife who practice natural forms of birth control engage in the identical practices when a child is conceived and when one is not. That can’t be the same for the contracepting couple.