Time Magazine Notes An Unexpected NFP Benefit: It Keeps the Rivers Clean
 (Nov. 10, 2009) Sexual morality isn’t the only draw in choosing Natural Family
Planning (NFP) these days. Those concerned with the environment are finding that
NFP doesn’t pollute the waterways as do the synthetic hormones and other
chemicals of artificial birth control.
A recent
Time magazine author related how NFP rates high for such reasons. “Like all
good Catholics, my husband and I had to attend church-run marriage prep before
we tied the knot last year,” wrote Kathleen Kingsbury in Time’s Oct. 26 issue.
“I was surprised, however, during the hard sell on natural family
planning, that this updated version of the rhythm method was being advertised
not only as morally correct but also as ‘organic’ and ‘green.’ I was even more
surprised when I found out that some of the most popular instructors of NFP —
known in secular circles as the Fertility Awareness Method — are non-Catholics
who praise it as a means of avoiding both ingesting chemicals and excreting them
into rivers and streams.”
The article, sprinkled with terms such as phthalates and
bisphenol, also looks into the use of chemicals in the makeup of sex toys and
tracks a trend of earth-friendly production methods of these products.
The article also says that the Catholic Church is catching on to the organic
trend. "People pay $32 for eye cream because they're told it is good for them
and the planet," says Jessica Marie Smith, whom Time says repackaged the NFP
program for the diocese of Madison, WI. "We figured we could do the same with
NFP."
Ingest, Poke and Patch
In an article on the
diocese’s website, “Green
is the New Black: How NFP is good for your soul and the earth,”
Smith, the diocese’s family planning coordinator, says, “Doesn’t it seem
interesting that we’ll go to great lengths to ensure our meat, dairy and other
grocery products are ‘all natural’ and hormone free, but then we’ll turn around
and ingest, poke or patch our bodies with all sorts of synthetic hormones, the
ramifications of which we’re still discovering?”
Women in Berwyn, Cicero, Stickney, N.
Riverside and other nearby suburbs in the western Chicago, IL area who want to
know more about Natural Family Planning should call
WomanCare Services, at 708-795-6000.
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