[metmom]

NFP IS birth control as it’s purpose is to prevent conception.

And annulment is church sanctioned divorce.

The Catholic church loves to repackage sin and rename it so that people don’t think they’re sinning.

[cva66snipe]

The laws given Israel had purposes. Up until the mid part of the 1900's infant and mother mortality rates weren't good. Many kids died at birth or by the second year, To have 5 kids live many had 6-8 more which did not in a lot of cases. A look in old family cemeteries will tell the story.

Doctors did not have the needed knowledge nor skills to help mothers carry their babies to full term and also keep her healthy. Today most pregnancies go to full term with healthy child and mother. IF a couple did not use some method of birth control a woman marrying say at 20 and having children at each available fertility could end up with 25 children by age 45.