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What’s wrong with Natural Family Planning? Taking a Catholic perspective on
the subject, Dr. Jay Boyd explains that the use of NFP to avoid pregnancy is
often promoted as “God’s family planning”. But is using NFP to prevent pregnancy
really trusting God? If we take control of spacing births, how can be sure this
is “God’s plan”, and that the children came “in God’s time”? And most people
fail to “read the fine print” that says that NFP is to be used only when a
couple has serious reasons for avoiding pregnancy. The reason many people think
of NFP as “Catholic birth control” is because that’s how it is used by many
well-meaning couples. Claiming that a couple using NFP is “open to life” while
they abstain from sex during the woman’s fertile period in order to
intentionally avoid pregnancy – well…that’s a contradiction in terms. It can
easily be argued that using NFP to avoid pregnancy is an expression of a lack of
trust in God’s will and provision. It’s an active effort on the part of the
couple to second-guess God’s timing for the family’s new members. Dr. Boyd takes
a close, objective look at NFP from the standpoint of the teaching of the
Catholic Church. She examines the basic problems with NFP, along with its
philosophical underpinnings; and she delves into the important concepts of
marital chastity and trust in Divine Providence.
Of course you are welcome to read each post here on the blog as well!
Posts on NFP:
11/29/13 NFP and the Feminist Revolution
11/14/13 The Importance of Understanding the "Marriage Debt"
11/8/13 What Do Children Learn When Their Parents Use NFP?
10/14/13 The Three Gold Miners
11/14/13 The Importance of Understanding the "Marriage Debt"
11/8/13 What Do Children Learn When Their Parents Use NFP?
10/14/13 The Three Gold Miners
10/2/13 Reading
the Saints
9/24/13 Does
“Choice” Make Us Happy?
9/5/13 The
Scandal of NFP: Vortex
8/26/13 Butting
Heads Over NFP
8/25/13 Cast a Longing Look Toward Heaven
8/17/13 Teach Your Children Well: Talking about NFP (Fr. Gardner)
7/22/13 Open to Life
6/18/13 Another Voice on “Heroic” Parenthood
5/10/13 Recovering from NFP (guest commentary)
3/26/14 Questioning
NFP
1/14/13 Marriage,
Procreation, and NFP
9/11/12 On
Marital Chastity, Part II
9/6/12 On Marital Chastity, Part I
8/30/12 Natural
Family Personalism
8/23/12 Modernism, Phenomenology, Personalism…and TOB
8/10/12 Family Size and Openness to Life
7/26/12 Is
NFP Really God’s Plan?
7/8/12 Venerable Fulton Sheen on Birth Control
7/2/12 An NFP Rant (Warning: This is a RANT, not gentle persuasion!)
6/27/12 NFP is Not Required
7/2/12 An NFP Rant (Warning: This is a RANT, not gentle persuasion!)
6/27/12 NFP is Not Required
6/15/12 "What
If I'm Wrong About NFP?"
6/13/12 What Do You Mean, "Contraceptive Mentality"?
6/6/12 Sex for Pleasure Only: Always a Venial Sin?
5/24/12 Is "Sex" a Gift from God?
5/1512 “What’s Your Beef with NFP?”
5/8/12 The Saving Grace of NFP
5/2/12 Why Are We Pushing NFP?
4/30/12 Marital Chastity, Fruitful Multiplication...and NFP?
4/26/12 On Clarifying the Licit Use of NFP
4/20/12 What'sWrong with NFP?
3/5/12 NFP and the Duty of Motherhood: Transcript of a Sermon
6/13/12 What Do You Mean, "Contraceptive Mentality"?
6/6/12 Sex for Pleasure Only: Always a Venial Sin?
5/24/12 Is "Sex" a Gift from God?
5/1512 “What’s Your Beef with NFP?”
5/8/12 The Saving Grace of NFP
5/2/12 Why Are We Pushing NFP?
4/30/12 Marital Chastity, Fruitful Multiplication...and NFP?
4/26/12 On Clarifying the Licit Use of NFP
4/20/12 What'sWrong with NFP?
3/5/12 NFP and the Duty of Motherhood: Transcript of a Sermon