My son is a Mechanical engineer. Him and his wife are using the pill and condoms as birth control. We had a big discussion/argument about artificial vs Natural Family Planning. I lost because I couldn't get across my points very well. I sent him information from Humanae Vitae and Evangelicum Vitae that I found on line. He still feels that NFP is just as sinful as the pill etc. He can see that the relationship would be benefited and the emphasis on chastity within the marriage, but he can't get why the pill is considered a mortal sin if that is the only differences. I reminded him that the pill can result in abortion but to this him and his wife said that after searching at length at the university and on line they found that of "all" the studies done in the world there is no conclusive evidence that this occurs. I told him that I had read somewhere that there was information that supports this claim. Can you help me with this part and give any information the Church uses to substantiate why artifitial contraception is intrinsicly evil?

Thank you

Contraception is wrong because it is an alteration, a harming, or a destruction of a healthy, normal, major, functioning system of the body: fertility. NFP does not alter the body at all.

Contraception is also wrong because the intent of the contracepting couple is to wrest total control of procreation for themselves and leave God out of the picture!!! The NFP couple knows that in regard to procreation, there are three involved: husband, wife, and God. In other words, the NFP couple makes a proposal to God, but will accept God's will. The contracepting couple tries to take total control!

The evidence that the pill can cause the death of an unborn child is given in the medical material included with every prescription of the contraceptive pills. Still, the reason why your son and daughter-in-law cannot find this truth online is that the physicians have redefined pregnancy. Pregnancy, they now say, begins at implantation, not at fertilization.

Since abortion is defined as a termination of a pregnancy, if there is no pregnancy, there is no abortion. But, in the eyes of the Church, anything which directly interferes with the development of the child after FERTILIZATION is sinful because it either harms or kills the unborn child. It usually takes seven to ten days after fertilization for the child to implant, i.e., in the new definition of pregnancy, it takes between seven and ten days after conception before a pregnancy begins.

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