Artificial Birth Control: More problems than solutions.

During the years of  being a practicing Catholic, I've gone back and forth on the birth control issue. There were times when we cheated and used condoms. After my son was born in 2009 I wasn't going to take any chances of getting pregnant again and my husband and I resumed the use of latex. As I waited for aunt Flo to arrive, I would start to panic and worry that the condom didn't work and I'd be pregnant again and deal with all the emotions that come a long with an unplanned pregnancy. I thought to myself how using this artificial method of birth control was not putting me at ease like I thought it should. We had also contemplated getting my husband "fixed."  We did this knowing full well the Church's teaching on artificial birth control. But we came across so many Catholics that chucked that teaching right out the window. So why not us?  Long story short, we found ourselves drifting further and further away from the Church but then by some miracle we came back and have embraced the Church's teaching on artificial birth control. We use NFP and I feel more confident and in control by following God's design of my body. Yet there are things that I have learned recently that I never thought of. Artificial birth control contributes to the abortion epidemic and condoms aren't the solution to the aids epidemic. The birth control pill came about in the interest of eugenics and racism and unfortunately the highest number of abortions are performed on African American women. Margeret Sanger's legacy lives on and not in a good way.

 Father Barron explains it best...