I follow Catholic teaching on contraception. Ask me anything.

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Anonymous wrote:Sounds like a great plan if you want 3-30 kids. Good luck with that. I know several people who do it and they all have "oops" kids.

I know several people who use contraceptives and have oops kids too. Funny right?

This is very true. How many times do you hear someone say their birth control failed...

A lot less often than I hear about someone who doesn't use birth control getting pregnant.

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But NFP is not supposed to be used lightly, and there are many other situations that restrict spouses' access to one another (travel, long-term illness, stresses). And yet spouses are called to be faithful to one another.

Two questions:
Why is NFP acceptable, but other methods of contraception are not? Is there a biblical basis for this?

First question: NFP is not a "method of contraception," because it is in no way contraceptive. Contraception is the choice (by any means) to impede the procreative potential of a given act of sex. If you are "using NFP," you NEVER choose to impede the procreative potential of a sexual act. It is the difference between sterilizing yourself and recognizing God-given times of infertility.

Second question: Church teaching is found in encyclicals (Casti Connubii and Humanae Vitae) and the Catechism, because Catholics accept the authority of the Church. But all of these teachings have a biblical basis. Christ Himself taught that men and women become "one flesh," and what God has joined, no man may put asunder (Mt 19:6). God created sex to be unitive and procreative, and it is not our place to separate sex from babies. Ephesians states that men are to love their wives as Christ loved the Church, and His love would never be deliberately sterilized. Genesis states we were created in the image and likeness of God, that His creation was "good," that we are "fruitful.". Children are referred to over and over again as great blessings.

Scripture is a love story. God is love, God loves us, we are to love as God loves. God chose to have sex be the way more humans, with eternal souls, come into being. The uncreated Love that is God touches the created world, between husband and wife, and a unique new person begins. Amazing.

The real question is, how can contracepted sex be biblical?

For PP asking for OP's biblical prooF, see above...

You have got to be kidding. The bible said that men and women become "one flesh". He also said go forth and multiply.

He did NOT say that every act of sex had to be open to procreation. Do you not see that this is an arbitrary interpretation of a few phrases??? Come on, this is not my first trip through scripture!

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What's the church's position on blow jobs? OK only if you swallow?

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Anonymous wrote:What's the church's position on blow jobs? OK only if you swallow?

I think OP just had an aneurism.

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Anonymous wrote:Let's say a woman has a problem, such as a bicornate uterus, that causes fetal loss. Is she not supposed to get married? Have sex? Use birth control?

Are people over the age of 50 allowed to marry in the church?

Based on OP's earlier responses, I'll take a crack at this one: she can marry and have sex (w/o birth control, of course) or marry and practice abstinence. But under no circumstances could she use birth control, because that would be damaging. It's fine to create a fetus that will die, as long as you haven't severed the unitive and procreative aspects of sex.

And the over 50 couple is fine too. Not an issue of they CAN'T conceive, but they're certainly not allowed to do anything that might interfere with the procreative aspect of sex. Impossibility is irrelevant.

How did I do OP? Am I getting it?

Poster, you get A++!!

If the fetus is destined for a short, painful life that's cool b/c it's all part of God's plan

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Anonymous wrote:Just FYI, every world religion and every Christian denomination taught birth control was wrong until the Anglican church made an exception for married couples in dire straights in 1930.

Jewish teaching has always allowed for the use of birth control. It was limited to specific circumstances but there was never a complete ban. Jewish law also has always allowed for abortion when the life (and health) of the mother is at stake.

Jewish law actually REQUIRES abortion when the mother's life is at stake.