WHY NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CATHOLIC CHURCH
Marital intercourse is a sign and symbol of committed love and is most fully human only when open to the gift of life.
Each time a couple makes love they are reenacting their marriage vows as they give themselves freely, faithfully, fruitfully, and totally to one another.
Natural Family Planning respects the life giving (procreative) and love giving (unitive) aspects of intercourse by not separating the two, the way that contraception does. Contraception not only blocks conception, it also blocks husband and wife from completely bonding. Natural methods, while avoiding pregnancy by abstinence during the fertile time, are still open to the transmission of life.
Through the use of Natural Family Planning, Catholic couples can live out their marital vows in keeping with Church teaching.