Any of you people who don't use birth control for religious reasons?

Question

If yes, what will happen if you get pregnant every year untill your menopause?

I know it's not very probable to happen but there were cases, I read about a woman who never had a period in her life, she kept getting pregnant before a period to ever come.

Do you think using birth control is a sin? If you were to choose between BC and abortion what would you chose?

And what kind of BC is considered to be natual, and not artificial?

No, eagle, I do not want a child yet, I'm only trying to understand some things here ....

Answer 1

If you get pregnant every year until menopause, then you'll have a lot of children. But as a woman gets older her chances of getting pregnant decrease...so it's unlikely. But so what if she does? Having a large family is wonderful.

Yes, I think birth control is a sin. I realize that in our current secular perspective that this is seen as ignorant and irresponsible. But that does not change the truth. From the begining to the end scripture calls us to receive God's love, to love as God loves, and to choose life. Sexual union is perhaps the most pointed opportunity to accept this call or reject it. It's through sexual union that the uncreated love of God penetrates the created world to commune with the love of husband and wife in bringing about the most stunning event in the universe: the creation of a new human person.

Contracepted sex says "We don't want to receive God's love. We don't want to love as God loves. We don't want to choose life."

You cannot choose between birth control and abortion. Abortion is what it is today because of contraception. Even the supreme court stated that abortion is necessary because of contraception. We have styled our lives around the ability to have sex without getting pregnant, because of this, when contraception fails abortion is a necessity. Additionally, the pill (which is very popular) is an abortificient. This means that a woman may be preganant but that the fertilized egg will not be able to implant into the uterus. This is effectively an abortion. Many women do not realize this, but if you take the pill read the information that comes with it. You'll find it in there.

Natural family planning (NFP) is acceptable. Husbands and wives are called to be procreative. If they have a good reason to avoid pregnancy they are free to be non-procreative (which means you abstain from sex during fertile times) but it's a contradiction of the deepest essence of the sacrament of marriage to be anti-procreative, which is what contraception does.

Additionally, up until the 1930s all religions were against birth control and many non-religious.

Ghandi spoke out against birth control saying: "nature is relentless and will have full revenge for any such violation of her laws. Moral results can only be produced by moral restraints...if contraceptive methods become the order of the day, nothing but moral degradation can be the result...As it is, man has sufficiently degraded woman for his lust, and contraception, no matter how well meaning the advocates may be, will still further degrade her."

Sigmund Freud said: "The abandonment of the reproductive function is the common feature of all perversions. We actually describe a sexual activity as perverse if it has given up the aim of reproduction and pursues the attainment of pleasure as an aim independent of it."

http://www.scripturecatholic.com/contraception.html
http://www.mountainretreatorg.net/articles/birth_control.shtml
http://www.catholic.com/library/Birth_Control.asp
http://www.catholic.net/RCC/Periodicals/Faith/11-12-98/Morality2.html
Book: Good News about Sex & Marriage by Christopher West.

Answer 2

Specifically the Church (Catholic) teaches that the sexual act has to be "open" to reproduction. In that sense artificial contraception is a sin (morally wrong) because it unnaturally interferes with that act. Natural methods of avoiding conception like the rhythm-method are ok because they simply avoid the natural fertile periods of a women (not directly interfering with the act). The condom is considered wrong on this account.

The big problem with other forms of so-called contraceptives like the Pill and IUD (Intrauterine Device) is that they don't necessarily prevent conception, and can act as abortifacients -- destroying an already conceived life.

Conception (joining of sperm/egg) takes place in the fallopian tube and the life process starts there. The small zygote then travels down the fallopian tube and tries to attach to the uterus wall to continue development. Artificial birth control methods like the Pill and the IUD affect the uterus in such a way as to prevent an already conceived small embryo from attaching to the uterus wall. Low dose estrogen pills (the only kind available in the US/Canada) don't suppress ovulation (releasing of egg) a good portion of the time. So it's still possible to conceive while on the pill or using an IUD -- but the small embryo can't attach to the uterus because of the effect of these. Therefore, this method of birth control can end up being an abortifacient. To use an analogy, it would be similar to pulling the feeding tube out of a viable human being trying to continue living.

See …

http://www.lifesite.net/abortiontypes/pillabortion_types.html

One doesn't have to be religious to object to "birth control" methods like the pill or IUD. Anyone that believes life starts at conception (the only rationally defensible position) should object to these forms of birth-control simply on ethical grounds. Using a pill or IUD is quite a bit different from just using a condom for birth control.

Answer 3

The catholic church doesn't believe in artificial birth control; the main reason for this is the prevention of life. The main thing behind this is responsibility, if indeed you concieve (which is near impossible if you are on the pill), will you have the moral base to care for this child, to give it life (the catholic church is strongly against abortion). And the only pure natural kind of birth control are cycle beads. Many practising catholics use condoms to protect from STD's and such, so artificial birth control is not totally unnacceptable.

Answer 4

The Bible says that being born with a natural birth control built into you body* (*sterility) is a curse of the LORD!!! God opens and closes wombs according to his whimsical will!!!

Answer 5

even pulling out before ejaculation is a form of birth control, so in my opinion, any religion that wants to tell people what to do with their body, is no real religion, but instead is just a front for keeping women back a few centuries.

Answer 6

Birth control is more than condoms and pills. It's about common sense. Do you need a child or want one?

Answer 7

you will have lots of kids