Vatican family council goes on the offensive.ROME -- In a document marking its 25th anniversary, the Pontifical Council on the Family issued a scathing condemnation of artificial birth control and alternatives to the traditional form of marriage, according to Zenit News Agency
"Never before has the natural institution of matrimony and family been the victim of such violent attacks," reads the document, Family and Human Procreation PROCREATION. The generation of children; it is an act authorized by the law of nature: one of the principal ends of marriage is the procreation of children. Inst. tit. 2, in pr. , issued in Italian on June 6. The document goes on to lament couples "willingly made sterile" through the use of artificial means of birth control and to condemn attempts by same-sex couples to marry and have children through adoption or in vitro fertilization in vitro fertilization (vē`trō, vĭ`trō), technique for conception of a human embryo outside the mother's body. Several ova, or eggs, are removed from the mother's body and placed in special laboratory culture dishes (Petri dishes); . The document permits the use of Natural Family Planning natural family planning Biological birth control Any FP that does not rely on artificial agents–eg, OCs, 'morning-after' pill, spermicidal foam, RU-486 or devices–eg, condoms, diaphragms, IUDs to prevent conception Methods Rhythm–calendar method, but strongly criticizes couples who use the method to limit the number of children to one or two. |
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