Dear BB,
I am an educated Catholic. While the official Church teaching is "against birth control", if you read further you find that the reasoning behind the church's teaching is actually against allowing conception to take place and then forcing abortion as in the morning after pill, IUDs, some types of hormonal birth control, and abortion.
In my Pre-Cana class we were taught natural family planning. It is a form of the rhythm method using basal body temperature charting. We have been using it for over 8 years and only have two children who were planned and conceived through the same method.
The church is against IVF. IVF has created the option for sex selection, selective reduction, and other morally wrong outcomes. I've quoted the reasoning here from: http://catholicinsight.com/online/church/vatican/article_...
Pope Paul VI has taught that there is an "inseparable connection, willed by God, and unable to be broken by man on his own initiative, between the two meanings of the conjugal act: the unitive meaning and the procreative meaning."
IVF violates the rights of the child: it deprives him of his filial relationship with his parental origins and can hinder the maturing of his personality. It objectively deprives conjugal fruitfulness of its unity and integrity, it brings about and manifests a rupture between genetic parenthood, gestational parenthood, and responsibility for upbringing. This threat to the unity and stability of the family is a source of dissension, disorder, and injustice in the whole of social life.
I'm not sure what you mean by Neonatal Nicus? Do you mean the ICU unit for babies? The Catholic Church is not against Neonatal ICUs.
I do not wish to pay for other people's birth control and I certrainly do not want to pay for abortions. This is forcing me to commit an act which I believe is offensive to God. I would be happy to pay for proper adoptive services.
In my personal opinion, easy access to birth control has lead to an increase in very irresponsible and immoral behavior in our society.
C.