If you read Dustin at Engaged Marriage’s What You Want to Know About Natural Family Planning, this is Kathleen at Project M‘s reply, which begins
I am an educated, fancy-pants, trendy individual. I have two completely useless liberal-arts degrees to prove it. So of course, like other liberal-arts-educated and trendy individuals, I am drawn to the word “natural.” It makes us organic-eating tree-huggers think of healthy bodies, uncorrupted oceans and virginal rainforests. Read the rest at Dustin’s blog.
You’ll see that she has a major change of heart, going from “It doesn’t work” to “it’s probably a preferably form of birth control,” and not just because of the natural element. Though she’s ambivalent about the abortafacient factor (still discerning this–she is Pro Life), she gets the relational and grassroots Non-Big Pharma social factor of it. A glaring misconception (no pun intended) that still exists for her is that NFP is contraception. Yes, for non-Catholics it can be used that way, but it’s inherently different than contraception because of the way it works. Further, Kathleen is trying to get pregnant, and she misses the point that NFP can be used to achieve pregnancy as well! An early commenter lets K in on the little achieving secret, which is good. Something I hope to add to the conversation is that it’s also an infertility treatment alternative.
What are your best thoughts and evidence on the abortafacient effect of the Pill? What did you think of the entry? Overall I thought it was honest, forthright, tolerant, and well written.
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