Isn the NFP method just a conspiracy by the Catholic Church to get Catholics to have lots of babies?
The Catholic Church has a complicated relationship with Natural Family Planning. Originally the Church advocated a Calendar Method based entirely on counting days past the first day of the cycle. This method is highly ineffective, especially for women with a variable cycle length. All current instructors of NFP teach a more sophisticated technique that involves multiple indicators to determine when a women is fertile or infertile. This empowers a women or a couple to make informed sexual decisions to either achieve or avoid pregnancy. Unfortunately, I believe it is this and other lingering myths that have prevented the NFP method from being more widely practiced.
