RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD BILLINGS OVULATION METHOD.

RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOODBILLINGS OVULATION METHOD

RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOODRESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD

The prudent and generous decision to have a large family;

or

The choice to have no more children for the time being or even for an indeterminate period,

for serious reasons and with due respect to moral law.

can mean


The Billings Ovulation Method is the most modern natural way

to achieve or avoid becoming pregnant.

Dr. John (died 4/1/2007)and Evelyn BILLINGS

Catholic Australian doctors

THE NATURAL ALTERNATIVE TO ARTIFICIAL CONTRACEPTIVES


The BILLINGS OVULATION METHOD is a bidirectional approach that can be used for both fertility control and promotion.

It is simple to learncost freenon-invasivehas no side effects

It is the most effective way of fertility regulation in all conditions,

as breastfeedingirregular cyclepre-menopausecoming off contraceptive medicationduring emotional and physical

stress.


The Billings Ovulation Method teaches women :

to recognize their own individual pattern of fertility and infertility

to understand that they are infertile more often than fertile throughout their reproductive years.

to recognize the fertile phase of their menstrual cycles, signaled by the development of a particular type of mucus from the crypts of the cervix.

HOSPITABLE CERVICAL MUCUS DURING FERTILE PHASE. SPERM (PINK) IS SEEN SWIMMING UP AQUEOUS CHANNELS AMONG MUCUS THREADS.


The Billings Ovulation Method (BOM) was officially introduced into China by the Chinese Ministry of Health in 1995, and since then:

fourteen BOM Centers have been established in China at the most strategic areas for fertility regulation and

36,845 BOM teachers have been trained.

BOM: THE CHINA EXPERIENCE


BOM: THE CHINA EXPERIENCE

The method is highly efficient only when a series of precautions and regulations are strictly followed. Inappropriate use would result in higher failure rates, as in preliminary trials in China (1989) and some other places.

Success Rate from 1995 to 2006:

In 2,686,400 fertile couples avoiding pregnancy = 99%

In 45,280 infertile couples trying to get pregnant = 32.1%


“The teachers of the Billings Ovulation Method are enriched by their activities because they see how much the BOM exercises a therapy upon conjugal love.

The marriage of the couple has made a covenant in which they give themselves completely to one another and within this gift is their precious fertility.

John Billings


The natural method preserves this unique gift and every act of intercourse remains open to the transmission of life.

The need to wait without intercourse at times is a part of every marriage, because of the birth of a new child, sickness of the husband or the wife, demands of employment and so on. ”

John Billings


“When the couple accepts this gentle discipline they make a magnificent demonstration of their love, the husband for the wife, the wife for the husband, and both together for the children already born and to be born in the future.

Each observes the goodness of their decision so that it has the effect of ennobling them both as they perceive what they have done for each other.

John Billings


They are happy to be cooperating with what the Creator has designed in Nature, are at peace with their conscience, and the family is growing in an atmosphere of love, happiness, security and peace which is so appropriate to the rearing of children, each of whom has experienced the beatitude of having from birth a father and mother who love them and love each other.”

John Billings

CREIGHTON MODEL SYSTEM – a refinement of the Billings Ovulation

Method

PREGNANCY AVOIDANCE AT FIVE FERTILITY CENTERS (1980, 1980, 1985, 1989, 1994)

#COUPLES #COUPLE- SUCCESS RATE MONTHS

CENTER 1. 288 2,224 98-100%CENTER 2. 273 1,980 99-100%CENTER 3. 378 2,471 99-100%CENTER 4. 597 7,084 99-100%CENTER 5. 242 1,810 97-100%

1. Creighton University (Omaha), 2. St. John’s Mercy Hospital (St. Louis), 3. St. Francis Hospital (Wichita), 4. St. Joseph Hospital (Houston),

5. Marquette Nursing Center (Milwaukee)


THROUGH

ARTIFICIAL CONTRACEPTION

OR

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING?

WHAT I

S THE

RATION

AL CHOIC

ECHO

ICE?

above all fully human, a mix of sense and spirit

an act of the free willa love, which is total, a friendship

that is unconditional and selfless, content to be able to enrich the

other with the gift of himselfalso faithful and exclusive until

deathit is productive

Conjugal act has inseparable and integrated UNITIVE (love-giving: signifies, expresses and incarnates the mutual love between husband and wife; authentic total self-giving) and PROCREATIVE (life-giving:

inherent orientation to the transmission of life) dimensions.

Conjugal act has inseparable and integrated UNITIVE (love-giving: signifies, expresses and incarnates the mutual love between husband and wife; authentic total self-giving) and PROCREATIVE (life-giving:

inherent orientation to the transmission of life) dimensions.

Dr. Angeles Tan-Alora, Bioethics for Students, 2006

NATURAL PLANNING

conception control based on the natural fertility cycle in women

Couple does not practice contraception (artificial interference with the two aspects of intercourse) but uses an opportunity provided by nature

“fertility awareness-based methods” Develops dialogue, reciprocal respect, shared responsibility and self-control

Fertility ControlETHICAL UNETHICAL

Natural Family Planning Artificial Contraception

“rightly use a facility provided to them by

nature.”

obstructs the natural development of the generative process

both cases for acceptable reasons, have the intention of avoiding children

abstain from during the fertile period during

infertile days, “use their married intimacy to express

their mutual love and safeguard their fidelity towards one another.” “In doing this they give

proof of a

true and authentic love.”

Performance of sexual intercourse with deliberate

intention of rendering infertile an act that could

be fertile

Dr. Angeles Tan-Alora, Bioethics for Students, 2006

Pope John Paull II (Familiaris consortio) and Congregation of the Doctrine of Faith (Donum vitae)

“every action which, in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural

consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render

procreation impossible”

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