For many couples, having a child is a source of joy brought about by careful thought and conscious choice. It is also a tough decision to make most especially for women who have other things in mind such as their career or further studies. For millions of women and their partners who opt not to get pregnant, contraception is always a viable option.
Christians have always condemned contraceptive sex. Both forms mentioned in the Bible, coitus interruptus and sterilization, are condemned without exception. The early Fathers recognized that the purpose of sexual intercourse in natural law is procreation, hence contraceptive sex, which deliberately blocks that purpose, is a violation of natural law. However, in this day and age, things are changing and contraception can not be disregarded.
Birth control or contraception is a course of therapy involving one or more actions, devices, or medications that prevents pregnancy. In other words, the mechanisms responsible for lessening the possibility of the fertilization of an ovum by a spermatozoon can be precisely referred to as contraception.
Stepping into the past, the oldest methods of contraception included coitus...