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- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: More questions for Suzanne or other pro-life parent
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.131126.2147@brandonu.ca>
- From: mcbeanb@brandonu.ca
- Date: 21 Aug 92 13:11:26 CST
- References: <1992Aug15.194628.2118@brandonu.ca> <1992Aug20.223004.13850@noao.edu>
- Organization: Brandon University, Brandon, Manitoba, Canada
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- In article <1992Aug20.223004.13850@noao.edu>, forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne Forgach) writes:
- > From article <1992Aug15.194628.2118@brandonu.ca>, by mcbeanb@brandonu.ca:
- >> (Suzanne Forgach):
- >>
- >>> She will be going to an NFP class at the first sign of her first cycle,
- >>> and she will know exactly how her body works, how boys' bodies work,
- >>> and where babies come from.
- >>
- >> Excuse my ignorance (I don't read all articles on ta), but what is NFP, and
- >> why do you have to wait til her first cycle?
- >
- > Natural Family Planning. Certainly she will know about it, but she cannot
- > possibly observe her own body's cyclic fertility changes (much less chart
- > them) if she doesn't even have cycles yet.
-
- Well it's easy to get into the theoretical aspects. You could even
- consider allowing her to see you chart everything. It would be
- a good preparation.
-
- >> Why not educate her before
- >> and spare her the fear and ignorance, even if it only lasts a day or so?
- >
- > Oh puleez. She will have neither ignorance nor fear. It's just physically
- > impossible for a female with no cycles to chart cycles.
-
- Unless she charts another female who happens to have cycles.
-
- >> Also, just wondering if this education includes info about contraception
- >> because if she were provided with that in the first place, then maybe she
- >> wouldn't have gotten pregnant in the first place, and none of your
- >> grandchildren will have been killed.
- >
- > Natural Family Planning is AS effective in avoiding pregnancy as that
- > popular contraceptive the "pill" for married regular participants in sex.
- > Even moreso for a pre-teenage virgin.
-
- No, I'm sorry, but this is wrong. NFP requires consistent attention be
- paid to your body, and that you must refrain from sex during certain times.
- It's success can only be charted by the determination and patience of the
- user. With the pill, you just have to remember to take it, and assuming
- you do, there's just a fraction of a chance of failure.
-
- Brian McBean - McBeanB@BrandonU.Ca
-