Monday, December 05, 2016

NATURAL FAMILY PLANNING equals RESPONSIBLE PARENTHOOD

Who does not know about the simple and insistentteaching of the Church on the reasonable as
well as ethical mandate of the responsibility of parents for the well-being of
their children they bring into the world, specially in terms of dutifully
providing their sufficient food and clothing, their decent housing and
education?And who is not aware of the
plain and insistent affirmation of the Church about every couple thus duly
planning the number of their children via the likewise reasonable and natural
premise on the monthly long infertility and short fertility periods of the
woman/wifeas precisely established by
nature itself?

In other words, who does not know that the Church wherefore
continues teaching the prudence and rationality of Responsible Parenthood
precisely through Natural Family Planning?The opposite is something not only irresponsible but also irrational –
exercising and enjoying the conjugal
right without however minding the responsibility that usually goes therewith
afterwards.Rights and obligations go
hand in hand.Separating them is for the
selfish, the egoistic, the irresponsible.In fact, when viewed in general, such separation between rights and obligations
whereby someone only thinks of exercising his rights without however fulfilling
his obligations – this errancy is even the root cause of a good number of
retrogressive and detestable social adversities.

Hence: “We thank the
Supreme Court for having urged caution and circumspection in the enforcement of
the recently passed RH Law.The Catholic
Church continues to insist that parents make responsible choices both with
respect to the number of children and to the spacing of births.” (CBCP
Statement on “Our Country and Our Faith”, 22 November 2016)

Why?The aforesaid
downright Population Control legislation under the cover-up of “Reproductive
Health Law” (RH Law) which is patently against human reproduction specifically through the in-take of unhealthy contraceptive
pills – which have intertwining financial reward with their manufacturers and
their large-scalecorporate
patrons.But something truly detestable
and really abominable is that according to reputable and competent medical
practitioners, there are pills in the world market that are not simply
contraceptive but also causative of abortion in the event of contraception.This is not to mention the possible contra
health effects of such pills on women taking them.There is also the recently forwarded
information that more and more individuals with Gender Identity Difficulty are
precisely another ill-effect brought about by the in-take of certain
contraceptive pills.

It
is a big embarrassment if not downright shame to take note of the phenomenon that fowls,
animals, and other supposedly irrational creatures observe Responsible
Parenthood as postulated by nature.For
example:When a mama hen has laid her
eggs, is hatching them and thereafter taking care of her chicks, she will
decidedly allow no rooster of any looks and standing to be but even near
her.Only when her chicks are grown up
and are already on their own, will she
allow a rooster to be around her – for another possible mating, another
possible egg laying and chicks caring.Is
this not Natural family Planning?If
this is not Responsible Parenthood – even among irrational creatures!

Oscar Cruz

About The Blogger

Most Reverend Oscar V. Cruz, D.D. is the Archbishop-Emeritus of Lingayen-Dagupan. He is currently the Judicial Vicar of the National Tribunal of Appeals. He is a prolific writer, having published several dozen books mostly on judicial and moral matters. His most recent book is about the Social Doctrines of the Church. He also has a blog where he posts regularly. He is an avid coin collector and dabbles in woodworking art.