Natural Family Planning – Educational Video
23 Apr
Natural Family Planning. Courtesy of www.nfponline.org. There are many different reasons that couples choose to learn Natural Family Planning — some like its high effectiveness rate, others appreciate that it is safe and healthy for the woman, and still others are glad to find a method of spacing births that fits with their religious beliefs. Couples choose to practice Natural Family Planning for a variety of reasons. Important to many people is the issue of morality. The services of the League are open to all regardless of religious affiliation or conviction, but that doesnt mean that we teach NFP without moral and religious convictions. First, we believe that God is the Author of nature; He is the one who put together in the marriage act what we call “making love” and “making babies.” It is God who in His providence has allowed us to learn in the late 20th century about womans alternating fertility and infertility — and about Natural Family Planning — at the same time that other medical advances greatly increased the population survival rate. NFP allows couples to prudently regulate births without recourse to unnatural, immoral methods of birth control that interfere with the way God designed our fertility. As astonishing as this statement may seem, throughout history natural methods have never been less effective than the unnatural, non-surgical methods. (Moral methods may not be as convenient, and they do require self-control, but that is a wonderful and rewarding …
