The questionnaire which follows may help you to choose exactly which options you feel happy with. What if you have been using, or have used in the past, a method of birth control that you now see may have grieved God, or been wrong in his sight? It is very important not to blame ...
The search still continues for the perfect contraceptive. Some of the research is directed at developing totally new concepts in birth control, but any entirely new method would have to pass such stringent evaluations that it would be unlikely to be available widely before the end of the century. Much more of the research is ...
Some Christian couples choose to rely entirely on prayer to limit the size of their family. This can take two forms. One way is not to use any kind of contraception and simply to trust God that whatever children he gives are his will for that couple. The other way is to decide prayerfully how ...
Sterilization is permanent contraception. Part of the reproductive system of either the man or the woman is removed or blocked so that the normal meetings of sperm and ova are prevented. In modern history, sterilization has only been used as a method of contraception in recent years, but it was known in the ancient ...
Abortion is the interruption of the normal process of pregnancy, by the death of the foetus before the twenty-eighth week. This can happen spontaneously; in everyday language a spontaneous abortion is usually called a miscarriage. Abortion here is used to mean deliberate termination of a pregnancy. Methods Abortion is now legal in many ...
Postcoital methods of birth control are those that are applied after sex has taken place. These methods assume that conception has, or may have, occurred — in the case of abortion, of course, it definitely has. Many people feel that using post-coital pills, IUD or menstrual extraction 'avoids' the moral dilemma of facing an abortion ...
IUDs (intra-uterine devices, or coils, also known as IUCDS or intra-uterine contraceptive devices) are small pieces of plastic, or plastic and metal, which are worn inside the woman's uterus to protect against pregnancy. At first sight IUDS seem like ideal contraceptives. They can be worn for a long time, some even for many years, with ...
Hormonal methods of birth control work by changing the body's hormone levels either so that conception is prevented or so that the body is made unsuitable for sustaining a pregnancy. The combined pills (commonly called just 'the pill') are the best-known hormonal contraceptives. Other oral contraceptives (those taken by the mouth) are the mini-pills, or ...
This is also called coitus interruptus or 'being careful'. It involves the man withdrawing his penis from the woman's vagina before he ejaculates, so that as few sperm as possible ever enter the vagina. Withdrawal is thought to be still the third most popular form of reversible contraception in this country (after the pill and ...
There are three main categories of people who choose to use contraception. First there are starters—those who have not yet had a child, and who want to delay a while before they start having children. Secondly there are spacers, those who have had one or more children, and who plan to have another one or ...