They know that artificial means of birth control are morally wrong, and their priest recommended that they use NFP (Natural Family Planning). Yet they do not understand why NFP is OK if birth ...

It’s a little pill with big responsibilities. But despite its primary role to prevent pregnancy, the contraceptive pill (or ...

Artificial birth control was officially banned by the Catholic Church in 1930, in Pope Pius XI’s Casti Connubii, a statement ...

Pop culture, schools, and the media all tell you that artificial birth control is a wonderful development of modernity. Explaining why they're wrong and the official Church teaching is correct can ...

and opposing birth control by any artificial means. In her dogged pursuit of birth control legalization, Margaret Sanger targets Massachusetts' puritanical laws. A petition is circulated to end ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

The data, published in BMJ Sexual and Reproductive Health, shows a "shift" in contraception use in the last five years, from "more reliable" hormonal contraceptives such as the pill, to "fertility ...

IN the six weeks since the Roman Catholic bishops of the U.S. issued a statement opposing the use of U.S. funds to underwrite artificial birth control programs abroad, the population explosion ...

However, many people would have serious moral objections to plans to use contraception in order to control population. One objection that isn't covered here is that the real cause of poverty and ...

Then as now, the Catholic Church was opposed to artificial contraception. Even if the characters had been aware of different methods of birth control they may have been against using them.