Comments on: Endometriosis And Birth Control: The Facts http://peter-ko.com/endometriosis-and-birth-control-the-facts Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:19:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Wise One http://peter-ko.com/endometriosis-and-birth-control-the-facts/comment-page-1#comment-494 Wise One Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:25:54 +0000 http://peter-ko.com/endometriosis-and-birth-control-the-facts#comment-494 Be honest. I've had my tubes tied and I went there for birth control pills to help regulate my heavy, irregular periods. Be honest. I've had my tubes tied and I went there for birth control pills to help regulate my heavy, irregular periods.

]]> By: . http://peter-ko.com/endometriosis-and-birth-control-the-facts/comment-page-1#comment-493 . Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:09:51 +0000 http://peter-ko.com/endometriosis-and-birth-control-the-facts#comment-493 >>In a religion that does not believe in using birth control (other than Family Planning,) would it be okay to take an oral contreceptive to help prevent a medical condition like endometriosis?<< In Catholicism, yes, it would be okay: "On the other hand, the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from -- provided such impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever." -- Humanae Vitae 15 http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html EDIT: Lal, "pulling out" is not an acceptable form of birth control in Catholicism. >>In a religion that does not believe in using birth control (other than Family Planning,) would it be okay to take an oral contreceptive to help prevent a medical condition like endometriosis?<<

In Catholicism, yes, it would be okay:

"On the other hand, the Church does not consider at all illicit the use of those therapeutic means necessary to cure bodily diseases, even if a foreseeable impediment to procreation should result there from — provided such impediment is not directly intended for any motive whatsoever." — Humanae Vitae 15
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html

EDIT: Lal, "pulling out" is not an acceptable form of birth control in Catholicism.

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