[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: ADMIN: The Death of the Pope

[Jenny H]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Miss Melanie 

  That's what my Catholic School taught me.  I mean there is Natural Family Planning that is practiced and condoned in Catholic circles as a means to prevent pregnancy however they don't see that as not "preventing the pregnancy" from taking place.  In other words, if I take a birth control pill what I am actually doing is preventing a egg from being fertilized.  If I am using a condom I am preventing sperm from entering.  

  If I am using NFP I am not using anything but the time of the month to prevent a pregnancy.

  Jenny now:
  actually, what it comes down to is with Natural Family Planning, you are not using any ARTIFICIAL
  means to prevent pregnancy. You are using only the natural rhythms of the body.. My family is not
  Catholic, but my father did attend a Jesuit college and (as he joked all his life) I have two brothers
  to show how well the rhythm system works. :-)) But, seriously, it is not contraception that the
  Catholic church opposes....just artificial contraception.
  Jenny


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