A recent discussion on contraception presents a foreseeable change in Church discipline. The media asserts the Catholic Church does not sanction birth control, and the Catholic Church tells us it is a sin for women to use contraception pills and /or devices. The focus, they say, is to adhere to Scripture in that we must not prohibit life as we are told to "go out and multiply."
One writer to another blog said Natural Family Planning (NFP) is just one more way to implement birth control. He cites an example: "a man and woman can marry and maintain they (never) want children . . . and in doing so, they can perform relations during non-fertile periods . . . all in an effort to prevent life from "multiplying."
The question is,do we think "the pill" is basically the same as NFP? Do both methods yield the same results?
2 comments:
I think that birth control pills can involve not just preventing conception, but the destruction of a human life.
One of the mechanisms of birth control by chemical means is to weaken the lining of the uterus. If conception takes place the unborn human life cannot implant and thus dies and is expelled at the next menstruation.
With natural birth control, if conception accidentally occurs that life still has a chance of being preserved.
This is just my personal opinion. Please feel free to share yours.
While the original post is short, the writer of the other blog was not only writing on the way chemicals can and do destroy the body, rather, he wants to know (since science of the pill was not in place when the Church declared contraception a sin) contraception (in general) can be different because of the form it comes in, i.e., pills versus NFP. Both prevent birth.
Now, we are told in matters of incest the pill may be (or is) acceptable by the Church. I am sure you can appreciate the confusion.
All animal forms including humans, can end with cancer when reproduction capabilities are not used as designed by God. Even veterinarians maintain neutering or spaying to prevent cancer of the uterus due to non-productivity in dogs. So, both, the pill (and) not allowing one to produce (NFP)can be equally detrimental.
Whether or not conception "accidentally occurs" addresses only one minor aspect of the issue. The real issue is that both, the (act) of implementing either NFP or the use of the pill - is for the same reason: to prevent future life. The author of the blog, feels the Church cannot be on both sides when both sides have equal negatives in the Church's eye.
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