Chris McGregor continues her interviews with Dr. Thomas Hilgers. We continue from the last post with “Contraception, p.2.” Dr. Hilgers talks about the orgin of the IUD (camels? really?), development of contraceptive technology, the politics of redefining pregnancy, the side effects of it all…

Miss Kelly, evidently, got the forward that I received recently from about twenty of my friends. Turns out pheromones, those odorless chemical scents we all emit, are not only messengers of eros, or human attraction. They may be the key to identifying not only a desirable, but a genetically optimal mate, and Miss Kelly gives a fabulous overview to various studies showing how chemical contraceptives thwart the whole natural process of finding and choosing one’s spouse.

My favorite line? “And you definitely can’t fool the vomeronasal organ. ” If I had a dollar for every time…Smells like the contraceptive movement is going up in smoke!

I just got my Diocese of Richmond newsletter, “The NFP Messenger.” There’s a testimony by Pam Pilch, who tells how marital struggles and her mother’s bout with breast cancer was the impetus to get off the Pill and seek another family planning method. Eventually the “childfree by choice” lawyer found Natural Family Planning through the Couple to Couple League, discovered her fertility was a gift not a disease, and her and her husband became open to life. Today they are a thriving family of five.