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To: Mrs. Don-o
Fortunately there is one such method available:modern fertility-awareness methods (NFP).

NFP (Natural Family Planning), which consists of not having sex during the woman's most fertile period, is most suited for couples where both partners can exercise self-discipline and engage in long-term planning. Does that characterize the majority of the population of Haiti?

193 posted on 07/12/2018 11:03:20 AM PDT by PapaBear3625 (I used to be disgusted, now I try to be amused.)
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To: PapaBear3625
NFP (Natural Family Planning), which consists of not having sex during the woman's most fertile period, is most suited for couples where both partners can exercise self-discipline and engage in long-term planning. Does that characterize the majority of the population of Haiti?

I believe that the name which practitioners of NFP in Haiti will be called is "Parents."

I very much doubt that Haitians can exhibit self control when it comes to sex. The fact that there are nine million of them on that tiny Island argues against it.

196 posted on 07/12/2018 11:19:32 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: PapaBear3625
Studies comparing theoretical effectiveness with user-effectiveness show that any method --- NFP, condoms, other barriers, spermicides, etc. ---work best the more highly motivated the user is. Couples use NFP very consistently and effectively when they have a serious economic or health-related or other personally compelling reason for doing so.

Similarly, higher motivation is associated with consistent compliance for the contraceptive methods (rubbers, foams). Without conscientious use, all of these methods fail.

At the extreme end, if a woman is so powerless in the relationship that she can't get her husband to delay intercourse for a couple of days, she doesn't have the negotiating power to insist on a condom, either. Experience shows that NFP tends to increase women's sexual authority and the respect she gets from her husband. It builds their sense of shared responsibility in their relationship.

Contraceptives do the opposite. They obliterate mutuality. They erase the man's sense of responsibility.

199 posted on 07/12/2018 12:43:46 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
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To: PapaBear3625

Plus, if the couple lack the mutual cooperation, self-discipline, and long-term planning to even want (let alone achieve) control over their fertility, then all that’s left is essentially a veterinary approach: coercive spaying/neutering or the equivalent.

This erases the central point, which is that we’re going for *human* well-being. If we see the very poor as both useless and feckless Untermenschen, Sanger and Hitler had the correct approach: segregate and sterilize. But I believe neither you nor I would go there. I think we’re both aiming at human dignity and well-being, not the Final Solution.


200 posted on 07/12/2018 2:21:40 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("God bless the child who's got his own." - Billie Holliday)
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