Contraceptive Sterilization and Professional Natural Family Planning Education
The question has arisen over a number of years of educating Natural Family Planning Practitioners and Natural Family Planning Medical Consultants as to whether or not those who have chosen contraceptive sterilization as their means for the avoidance of pregnancy should teach natural family planning (NFP) to new couples or be involved in the fonnal education of new natural family planning teachers. Over the years, a few applications have been submitted from persons whose chosen method of avoiding pregnancy was contraceptive sterilization. In such cases, the Pope Paul VI Institute Natural Family Planning Education Program has rejected admission of these prospective students into these programs based principally on the norm that this would undennine the credibility of the natural family planning education and service programs and jeopardize the quality of the services provided. By presenting the user and/or the teacher with an individual or individuals who, by nature of their personal contraceptive practice, hold