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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My advice would be to go to confession and just tell the priest how you feel. Exactly how you wrote it above. Not all priests are great, but many are. Maybe he would be willing to commence a conversation with you about it. The fact that you want to go back to confession is great - he will be happy. And if you are open to even a conversation about it, any good priest would be more than happy to walk through the theology of it and talk to you about your fears and your options. [/quote]

Right,  a good priest will talk to you and listen to you and ultimately tell you to use the rhythm method or leave the church.  But you'll feel good about it all, because he's a good priest.[/quote]

Modern Natural Family Planning is as far from the so-called “rhythm method” as ancient cow-dung pessaries.  There is a “standard days” method; a method involving symptom/mucus observation; one that adds observation of basal body temperature; and methods that further include saliva microscopes, ovulation testing and fertility monitoring devices. The “failure” rate of NFP is extremely low, and it has the advantage of also aiding in becoming pregnant when that is what is desired.  Nothing is “perfect.”  Even tubal ligations and vasectomy fail. [/quote]
Women should have control over their own bodies. Full stop. 
And the failure rate  for NFP is not low. That is a straight up lie. 
Vasectomies and tubal ligations rarely fail. Rarely, and usually due to incompetence.  Ask lawyers.

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I’ll just ask my sister, thanks.

NFP actually involves a woman taking “control over her own body” and learning how it works so she can apply that knowledge to achieve or to delay pregnancy. NFP requires partner cooperation at a far more significant level than chemical or even barrier contraception, which can leave women feeling like they have to be “available” whether they feel like it or not. NFP differs from artificial contraception by taking advantage of natural periods of fertility and non-fertility. From a religious standpoint it is adaptive to divine design rather than interfering with it. [/quote]

I trust you take the same position on antibiotics. You wouldn't want to "interfere" with "divine design," after all.[/quote]

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