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Well it's one thing if you need the pill for medical reasons. I was about to go on it myself to correct an unhealthy hormonal imbalance (which I won't go into detail about). But then the problem seems to be fixed after I started exercising more and watching what I ate. Oh well...point is that I was seriously considering it to improve my health. I was in a bit of a mental disagreement though at first. I've been taught that using contraception was a sin...but what about using it as a medicine and not a contraceptive? I had no intentions to abuse this.

I can't speak for the rest of the world, but BC among practicing Catholics is pretty much...unneccessary.

1.) Pre-marital sex is out. Who needs protection when you're not going to even do it?

2.) When you take your wedding vows, you promise to welcome children lovingly into your lives. Interestingly enough, your marriage is not valid until you try to keep your promise. It can be a bad attempt...have sex when your least likely to become pregnant...or one parent could very well be infertle...you just have to give it a shot and see what happens. Using a contraceptive is an artificial means that prevents you from keeping that vow. You are not accepting children because you are preventing them from ever being created.

3....on a personal level...I just don't like condoms on principle. The thought of it feels...kinda fake. Like the couple is not totally giving themselves to each other. Like there's something to fear. I don't like that. If I ever get married and engage in such intimacy, I don't want to be afraid of anything.

But birth control isn't 100%. Birth control doesn't always kill a fetus, infact, that's very rare that that happens. It stops an egg from being released all together. I still am worried about accidently aborting a fetus so I use a condom and my birth control, but if I were still to get pregnant I'd take that as a sign that God wants me to have a child in my life.

There is nothing wrong with having sex for pleasure as long as a person isn't doing it casually. I find it wrong that people just have sex, sex, sex with everyone, but with my boyfriend, we do it because we love eachother. Now my sister and her husband are Catholic and lead retreats and they have two children and are open to more, but they use condoms because it's less messy.

I was thinking of getting my tubes tied because I want to adopt children, a whole bunch of them, because right now my cousins are living with me since their dad died and their mother is unfit to raise them (though she doesn't think so). Seeing them and knowing how many unadopted children are in the world it makes me feel selfish for wanting to be pregnant.

Personally, I'm against birth control pills, and other such things because their usually what lead to abortion. I'm not saying that's true for everyone. I am saying that people have sex for pleasure and use pills and condoms to stop from having the baby that they don't want. When the pill doesn't work, they have an abortion.

It is okay to use birth control as long as:
The intent is not to use it to not have children
2. You have absolutely No sex, even if you are married (this is because you might end up with a child and starve it to death. See what happens is a child is conceived and is then with a soul but with birthcontrol the womb is hostile to the new life, thus starving it to death)

I'm pro-life as well, but there is a difference between pro-choice and pro-abortion. Many pro-choicers consider themselves against abortion and would never use it, but feel they shouldn't make decisions for others and give them the option.

Yes, but then its not considered abortion anymore. Usually when that happens, its either they both die or the mother lives. Although, technically, everyone is endangered during a pregnancy and many use that as an excuse when it really isn't. There has to be an eminent (sp?) danger that would cause death.

Birth control for medicinal purposes is okay by the Church...just like painkillers to relieve pain is okay, but to get high just for the hell of it is a sin.

If a mother and the child will die, preventing an abortion is pro-fetus, in my opinion, because a life is a life is a life. A woman and an unborn child are worth the same in God's eyes, aren't they? In any medical procedure, if you have two patients at risk of dying, and you can save one or both will die, you're obligated to give the option of life to the person who can be saved. If one will survive at the cost of another one's life, it gets tricky. Usually the one with a better shot at pulling through will be the one saved. It's ghastly business but it happens. Induced abortion should be a medical procedure. As it is today, it isn't...(They've even got separate buildings JUST for abortion and different laws than any other medical field....) The result is that it is unsafe even though it's legal. The Church's stance on abortion is that self defense is the only justifiable reason to have an abortion, I believe, because prolife isn't only about the unborn, it's about the women and men and children already born who are affected by it as well. I could be wrong though, I haven't had any abortion learning in Catholic school since I was 13.