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Contraception vs. NFP

Contraception vs. NFP. Humanae Vitae. Pope Paul VI, our school’s namesake, was prophetic when he wrote about the Church’s teaching on contraception in his 1968 Encyclical Humanae Vitae.

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Contraception vs. NFP

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  1. Contraception vs. NFP

  2. Humanae Vitae • Pope Paul VI, our school’s namesake, was prophetic when he wrote about the Church’s teaching on contraception in his 1968 Encyclical Humanae Vitae. • Contrary to popular opinion and prevailing wisdom, he warned that the widespread use of contraception would lead to the following:

  3. PVI’s Predictions….

  4. 1. The Morality of the Act • Sexual intercourse is a powerful form of marital communication. • The sexual act can be thought of as the wedding vows made flesh-renewing the wedding vows; the couple’s promise that their love will be free, faithful, total, and open to life (fruitful).   • It is not avoiding pregnancy in itself is wrong, but the reason and method that is used affects the morality of the act. • Birth control views fertility as an enemy that needs to be ‘protected’ from; it uses a barrier, hormones or chemicals to prevent pregnancy or implantation. • NFP (Natural Family Planning) relies on the knowledge of when a woman is fertile (fertility awareness) to either avoid or achieve pregnancy.

  5. Morality cont’d.. • Contraception deliberately interrupts, sterilizes and works against (contra) conception. • NFP couples respect the way God ordained conception to occur; they accept and work with the natural cycles of woman’s fertility. • Contraception alters the marital act of total self giving and receiving, since one’s fertility is withheld (pregnancy is treated as a disease). • In the language of the body, instead of saying ‘I give myself’ with contraception the body says “I refuse to give all of myself or receive all of you” • NFP couples are acting and working with the way God has designed fertility; it in no way disrupts or sterilizes the act of intercourse.

  6. 2.Some Contraceptives Work by Causing Abortions • The birth control pill, the morning after pill (Plan B Emergency Contraception), the patch, the intrauterine device (IUD), and the Depo-Provera shot sometimes work by preventing a newly conceived child from attaching to the uterus (implantation). • This causes a first trimester abortion to occur – without the mother even knowing it. Video link here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jiCU46_lWeE

  7. 3. Adverse Side Effects Due to Contraception • Most of the potential adverse side effects of all contraceptives affect the woman. • Many side effects include but are not limited to a heightened risk of breast cancer, of contracting a sexually transmitted disease (STD), migraine headaches, high blood pressure, fatal blood clots, increased fetal abnormalities, and toxic shock syndrome. • Hormonal contraceptives give a false sense of security since they do not protect against STDs contracted by genital contact (such as HPV).

  8. 4. The Benefits of NFP

  9. Birth Control Facts • 1 out of every 6 teenage girls will become pregnant during her first year of using birth control. • Planned Parenthood’s research institute had to admit that most high school pregnancies are caused by contraceptive failure, not by the failure to use them. • Now consider that a woman can get pregnant only a few days of the month, but you can get an STD on any day. • Birth control pills interfere with a woman’s immune system, making her more likely to contract certain STDs.

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