Natural Family Planning-Part III
This is Part III in the series on Natural Family Planning. You can see Part II by clicking here.
The Pill
The wonderful birth control pill. The pill that was invented to make so many women feel liberated. So many women have the freedom to do what they want. The pill to fix physical problems. The magic pill. Oh little did we know.
Two weeks ago I mentioned how: Days before ovulation occurs, the woman’s body produces mucus. The basic purpose of mucus is to line the walls of the uterus so a fertilize egg can attach and grow into a baby! Isn’t that incredible??? Talk about God designing the woman’s body for the purpose of carrying a child.
Regardless of your faith, if you are pro-life and using the pill, you should know how the pill really works. When we learned NFP years ago, I mentioned to the nurse how I used to take the pill. (I will focus on my pill use in another week’s post.) At that point she described to me how it worked. Basically, the hormones in the pill dries a woman out so she doesn’t produce mucus. Mucus is needed so an embryo can attach to the uterus wall and grow into a baby. When there is no mucus, where does the baby go? You guessed it, see you later, bye-bye. Basically, when you are on the pill, you can still ovulate and produce an egg. That egg can still be fertilized by sperm. That egg and sperm, creating a baby, can still move down your fallopian tubes and descent to your uterus. Unfortunately that baby has no where to grow so it just dispenses from your body. So really, the pill allows you to get pregnant. It just keeps you from staying pregnant. And in the United States, that is legal.
If you didn’t read that last paragraph, you can just watch this video instead. It states the fact better than I can ever articulate. I found this great video on the Natural Family Planning blog. If you are interested in learning more about NFP from people who are more experienced than I’ll ever be, check out their blog.
There are many women that are told by their physicians that the pill will help fix their female problems. But really, the pill just acts like a band-aid. The pill doesn’t fix any female problems at all. It just stops up your system. And when you later decide to get off the pill, you still have the problem to fix. Most times, a combination of diet and exercise can help ease the problem. Which is so much cheaper, and safer, then the pill.
January 7th, 2010 at 12:43 am
I’ve never heard that about BCP. Thanks for the info
January 7th, 2010 at 8:46 am
I just want to point out that only some pills allow ovulation - any pill with both estrogen and progestrone is designed to stop ovulation. If one ovulates while on this type of pill it’s because they’ve made a mistake in taking them.
January 7th, 2010 at 10:52 am
Jenn-
There are cases where ovulation still can occur when there is progestrone and estrogen mixed in the pill. The difference is the progestrone dries out the women so the fertilized egg has no where to implant.
I know each pill is different and there could be a pill that stops the sponteous ovulation altogether. But there still is a chance, and for me, that chance is not worth it.