Christian's on birth control?

[beansprout55]

Just curious as to what birth control you fellow Christian's deem acceptable?

Touchy topic. Mixed advice online and an embarrassing topic to ask church leaders.
We gave birth to our first 3 months ago so obviously I'm not keen on getting pregnant for at least another year, but I'm stuck on what method to use.
My periods have always been irregular so natural planning would be hard. Condoms are such a mood killer and due to birthing injuries I can't feel much when DH wears one, but it seems like they might be our only option.

There seems to be lots of talk about the pill and IUD causing abortions therefore I'm hesitant to use either without advice and prayer.

Thoughts?

I think Mirena type coils with hormones supress ovulation too actually. I’ll check.

So IUS (hormone) coils can suppress ovulation but they don’t reliably suppress ovulation for all women so probably not a great fit for you given your preferences.

Stop having sex? Also, grow up. You are a parent who can't bring themselves to ask an actual person this question.

What on earth is a Christian Doctor? I've worked amongst them for 10 years..... and as a professional medical person you should not be relating what you prescribed based upon your own religious views for patients. WTF

The Frank truth is it's better to use contraception UNLESS you can afford to keep feeding mouthfuls!

Your church doesn't sound like a positive place OP.

I've used the combined pill, condoms, safe time of the month (between our two children when another baby wouldn't have been the end of the world) and the mini pill. Almost forgot I had the implant once, but absolutely hated it as it badly impacted my mood.

I remember telling my GP after the first child that I wouldn't use the mini pill due to my Christian beliefs - cringe, cringe, cringe. Changed my mind after second and last child.

Our children were planned and had no unexpected pregnancies despite getting pregnant very easily.

I don't think our church (happy clappy) had a strong stand of contraception or I don't remember it if they did. In any case I did what was right for us as a couple, but mostly what was right for me.

If a doctor is prescribing medicine based on their religious beliefs and not what's best for the patient, they shouldn't be a doctor.

Just read all your posts op. Cerazette was the one I used for donkeys years up until the menopause. It suited me very well and I had no qualms about using it.

"Christian doctors"? Are you in the US? I can't see that being a big thing in the UK. I only had one doctor that I knew was a Christian and it didn't appear to impact on his prescribing or treatment at all.

There is no apostrophe in Christians - it’s a plural, not a possessive.
The Anglican church (C of E) has no objection to any form of contraception, it’s the Roman Catholic church that takes a stance against it, believing that sex should be purely for procreation.
Doctors have always been permitted to opt out of offering treatment that conflicts with our religious beliefs, but we have a duty to refer to a colleague who will provide it instead, eg Catholic gynaecologists do not have to perform terminations.

Are you always such a grammar Nazi?

From what OP was saying, it sounds like "Christian Doctors", according to her, prescribe a different drug, not refer them to a different doctor.

Well I grew up in a very religious house in the UK in the 80's (Brethern then Baptist) and I have never heard of contraception being a contraversial issue in protestant churches.

Though it was just Catholics who had an issue with it.

In this day and age you don’t need church leaders, usually men, interfering with and dictating to you what contraception is acceptable or not. That’s positively medieval.

Do what you must to keep your self safe, healthy and happy.

Was on the pill for ten years. Then used condoms.

I don't consider life to start at the moment of fertilisation though.

Well I married a priest and he says contraception is none of God's (or anyone elses) business

🤣

Condoms but because I don’t like taking hormonal contraceptives, not because I think God cares which method I use.

You asked about skin issues on Cerazette - my skin has never been great, I went from adolescent acne to adult acne, and I haven't seen much difference with or without contraception.

Roman Catholic here. Obviously a bunch of men who are not God made up this definition of where life starts and they didn’t consider women when they made it. I use the contraceptive implant, because Jesus clearly never intended women to be lesser or have their entire life derailed by babies. My degree would have been a waste of time if I were just going to have kids willy nilly which is what happens without effective contraception.

There seems to be lots of talk about the pill and IUD causing abortions therefore I'm hesitant to use either without advice and prayer

You believe this? What difference will prayer make?

From Christian to Christian, you need to read and apply science. And logic and common sense 😊

To be fair, the copper IUD does prevent zygotes from implanting, so if you believe life stars at conception, that's not for you.

But the combined pill works by preventing ovulation. It's ridiculous to object to it on the grounds that there's a 0.0000001% chance the pill fails in that regard but the accompanying thinning of the endometrium makes the resulting pregancy not viable. Sillyyyyy

Are you American? Your views seem at odds with most Christians I know?

this concern is becoming increasingly common among fundamentalist Baptist/Evangelical groups. I think it's come from America. A lot of trendy fundamentalist Christians now take the view that any kind of contraception that stops a fertilised egg from implanting is akin to abortion in that life has begun but you are creating an environment in which it cannot survive.

Personally I find it dangerous and regressive, and as you and others point out, not the view of many many Christians.

I have similar reservations to you, op. In addition I want to avoid hormonal contraceptives for medical reasons.

I used the Persona monitor as I was ok with the risk profile, these days I don’t use anything as we feel we know how to avoid another pregnancy and can tolerate the risk

Ewww! Just like how evangelicals bring purity culture to the UK.

Fuckwits