[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the ping. I don't have time to go into detail (I'm making raised beds out back for strawberries) but the prohibition on contraception is not based on the 5th Commandment ("Thou shalt not kill") but on the Sixth ("Thou shalt not commit adultery") --- understanding that by "adultery" is here used as meaning not just intercourse outside of marriage, but intercourse other than the Marriage Act, i.e. perversion.

The "wrong" of contraception is that the good gift of maritalsexual union is deliberately twisted apart or altered in order to contradict or deny one of the two God-given "ends" of marital sexual union, these two ends being Love and Life. Any act that intentionally undermines or destroys one of those ends, is by definition perverted.

That's why it is wrong to engage, even in marriage, in any act that is deliberately degrading, un-loving, perverted, or intentionally closed-off to the transmission of life. If you try to split off Life from Love or Love from Life, you are dismembering an act which was created, by God's design, to graciously revere and respect both.

It's like taking to that Armani suit with a scissors, and cutting out the butt of the pants. It would not only harm the design, it would insult the designer. Or, in the case of married love, the (capital D) Designer.

If you have an extra few minutes to read something which may make more sense of this, I invite you to try This Article (Link).

Blessings on uou!

[Jack of all Trades]

Thanks for your thoughtful reply, and happy planting.

To the point:

Any act that intentionally undermines or destroys one of those ends, ...

How is it that NFP does not fit that bill? It certainly does intentionally undermine the chance of producing life.