Doctors say requests for permanent sterilizations and long-term birth control like IUDs have surged across the nation since ...

The current birth control controversy has been thoroughly politicized, but it is controversial precisely because some people, including the Catholic priesthood and many evangelicals, believe that ...

They know that artificial means of birth control are morally wrong, and their priest recommended that they use NFP (Natural Family Planning). Yet they do not understand why NFP is OK if birth ...

Pop culture, schools, and the media all tell you that artificial birth control is a wonderful development of modernity. Explaining why they're wrong and the official Church teaching is correct can ...

Emergency birth control sales and appointments for IUDs spiked after Election Day over fears of what a Trump presidency could mean for women's reproductive rights.

There were a few voices that warned the world about the dangers of artificial contraception, but the most notable was Pope Paul VI. Mocked for his “Humanae Vitae” encyclical in 1968 ...

Artificial birth control was officially banned by the Catholic Church in 1930, in Pope Pius XI’s Casti Connubii, a statement ...

However, many people would have serious moral objections to plans to use contraception in order to control population. One objection that isn't covered here is that the real cause of poverty and ...

On New Year's Eve 1930, the Roman Catholic Church officially banned any "artificial" means of birth control. Condoms, diaphragms and cervical caps were defined as artificial, since they blocked ...

Second, the Church does not oppose artificial contraception, not because it is artificial, but because there is so much that ...