That can and often does hold even if the couple are contracepting, which is why it is possible to consummate a marriage even if, say, the wife is taking birth-control pills. ❋ Mike L (2008)
The faction of Catholic Priests who didn’t accept Humanae Vitae’s teaching on contraception and told couples to "use their consciences" actually ended up "contracepting" themselves out of existence, by not being open to new Priestly life and through their own lack of desire to promote priestly vocations and intentionally blocking the seeds of vocations from growing. ❋ Argent (2006)
When you tell a Catholic mom who is working a full time job and contracepting with her husband that her use of the pill is bad because it violates the unity of her marriage while not being on the pill doesn't, she will smile at you and go right on taking the pill. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Should cohabiting or contracepting straight couples avoid the magazine? ❋ Unknown (2009)
Or, as recent studies have shown, contracepting females are not attractive to males. ❋ Joanna Bogle (2008)
We sometimes hear it said by enthusiastic non-contracepting parents that it is their goal to "out-populate the enemy." ❋ Unknown (2008)
How many contracepting Catholics proudly take Holy Communion? ❋ Dymphna (2008)
By his own standards, he was contracepting and aborting love children! ❋ Unknown (2006)
My main worry is not about the Western enemies of the Church, but about what Christians do to themselves by their divisions and their contracepting in the face of militant Islam. ❋ Mike L (2007)
Far from experiencing the lack of love implied by the theology of the body's argument for the arrogation thesis, some contracepting couples would say they express all the greater mutual love by taking steps to block and thus spare themselves a pregnancy, instead of just hoping they have accurately determined when sperm would fail to reach egg. ❋ Mike L (2006)
But let us assume arguendo that the NFP-using couple and the contracepting couple have equally and sufficiently "serious" reasons to avoid conception. ❋ Mike L (2006)
But ejaculating inside the vagina is the sort of act that is apt by nature for procreation; that's why couples contracepting with condoms worry about the condoms breaking! ❋ Mike L (2006)
I'd hate to think that someone is sitting behind me in the pews looking at me with distaste and thinking "Look at that wicked contracepting woman!" ❋ Dymphna (2006)
The IUD and the diaphragm protect roughly an additional 4 percent of the contracepting population. ❋ Douglas L. Anderton (1997)
