Doctors at an Oklahoma Hospital Were Just Told They Can’t Prescribe Birth Control Anymore

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35. I agree.

My grandmother, who was an extremely devout catholic, RAN to go get the first incarnation of the birth control pill. She was a tiny woman, 4'11", who birthed mostly 10 lb babies after really terrible labors. After 8 kids she'd had enough and was thrilled to have an option. She kept it on the 'down low' though, as she didn't want anyone else to know, she was afraid her faith would be questioned. She loved her kids fiercely but she really suffered during pregnancy and birth and she knew she wanted to concentrate on the kids she already had. By then, though, she was already in her late 30's, so she only took them for a few years till she hit menopause.

The miracle was that she was very good with the 'natural' method before she started with the BC pill. While she had 8 kids using the 'natural' method, her contemporaries - my great aunts - who mostly used no method at all had between 15 and 21 kids. Crazy. While my grandmother was devout, she understood that the church itself was run by old men who had no clue what giving birth was like, so she basically discounted their ridiculous presumptions about fertility and birth control.

Pretty much every single Catholic woman I know - and I know a LOT of them being Catholic growing up - took/takes birth control. The church is shooting itself in the foot if they push this.