I am continually baffled by the fact that people can't figure out that when you make your body stop doing what it is supposed to do, that is bad. Consider this:
"I sure feel good today. Will you hit me in the head so I have a headache?" - Ridiculous
"My blood pressure sure is good today. I better go get mad about something." - Ridiculous
"I sure do enjoy the use of my limbs. Would you break my arm, so I don't have to enjoy this any more?" - Ridiculous
"My fertility sure is working well today. I better do something to stop it." - Acceptable.
Why is that acceptable? Is there any other bodily function that when it is working right, we take medicine to make it stop working so well? I can't think of one. Why is this one area where so many people discard the best option and immediately go for second best? How often do you hear anyone promoting safer cigarettes? "Who could possibly consider not smoking at all? That would be way too hard." You don't hear that too much, but we definitely do hear it about sex. Abstinence is way too hard. We should promote something that is less effective rather than waste our time on it. I pray that some day the world will stop accepting mediocrity and start striving for the perfection that Christ modeled for us.
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This is a slide from an NFP talk I have seen. It outlines the side-effects of the various methods of regulating births. Click for larger size:
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