The first nervous teen-age visit, where the gynecologist offers a hormone-laced birth control pill because “you're going to have sex anyway, and you don't need your parents' permission.” The obstetric visits, where immediately following birth you are offered more birth control pills. The menopausal visits where you are offered more hormones to control symptoms. How sadly and completely our doctors miss the beauty of women's natural fertility, and how eagerly we pollute our bodies in an attempt to keep them from functioning as intended by nature. We are women of child-bearing age who in some way or another stumbled onto the beautiful methods of Natural Family Planning as a means to manage the sizes of our families. We know many women who have practiced NFP or have endorsed the idea as they opt for a “providential” outlook, not practicing NFP, but open to new life in every marital embrace. Some of these women have large families – opening them to a barrage of “rhythm method” jokes, but many do not. Often, these women have small families by choice or by circumstances through the early onset of infertility, much to their sorrow.
The vast majority of these non-contracepting women have beautiful marriages, with a divorce rate of about 2 percent, as opposed to a staggering 50 percent in the contracepting population.
With beautiful marriages come joyful families, and women free from the myriad side effects of contraception: weight gain, depression, lack of sexual desire, irritability, lackluster marriages, “unintended” pregnancies and a vague sense of being used – a commodity rather than a treasure to the man in their lives.
Many of us know the terrible effects of artificial birth control because WE HAVE BEEN THERE. After NFP was introduced into our marriages we found the results were breathtaking. Please see our links for further information on the life- and marriage changing aspects of NFP.
We want to go to doctors and midwives who are concerned about our mental and spiritual as well as physical needs. We want them to ENCOURAGE ABSTINENCE in young women for their TRUE EMOTIONAL HEALTH. Again, many of us have experienced first-hand the tremendous damage of pre-marital sexual activity, and we don't want our children and grandchildren to suffer like we did. We are teaching the tremendous benefits of abstinence in our homes, and expect our doctors to support us. Finally, we want all women to have all the information when it comes to post-abortive treatment. There have been numerous credible studies which link abortion, especially in women under 18, with breast cancer, but we don't hear it on the news. We want women to be aware of the natural and effective treatments which exist for post-partum depression and post-menopausal conditions.
We are not here to throw stones at anyone -- not at other women, and certainly not at medical professionals, who have been just as conditioned as all of us in a “contraceptive” approach to life and marriage. We want simply to provide a better alternative – a choice - for health.
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