re: #122 ggt

Actually, RC church does believe in contraception—just not by artificial means. Don’t ask me what the frickin’ logic is.

Vatican logic: “Artificial” contraception (condoms, The Pill, IUDs, etc.) are artificial barriers to having children that interfere with God’s will.

The claim is that natural family planning is just as effective as the pill when done correctly. Problem is, most people don’t do it correctly, since they may not read tests correctly, or miss symptoms, or they decide to hell with all of the record keeping and constant stress and have sex even when they think a woman might be in her fertile days, so they end up with a much higher risk of an unintended pregnancy. It’s why even most Catholic couples don’t bother with natural family planning and just use some sort of artificial birth control.