Contraception

milby · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 9:59 am

My wife had her "tubes tied" nine years ago after our last child was born. If we were to convert to the Catholic church how would we deal with this? Or how would the Church view this?

gherkin · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 10:06 am

Some people do elect to have the surgery "reversed," but she would not be obligated to.

kage_ar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 11:38 am

This would be forgiven when she confesses it in her first confession!

milby · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:17 pm

Would we be expected to refrain from future sexual relations since it would be an ongoing form of birth control?

faithfulservant · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:26 pm

i'm gonna take a huge stab and say no... hysterectomies also do not prevent couples from engaging in the marital debt

kage_ar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:27 pm

milby wrote:

Would we be expected to refrain from future sexual relations since it would be an ongoing form of birth control?

No, it was an act one time in the past. The result, no longer being blessed with children, is not an ongoing sin.

The Catechism section is very good.

http://www.scborromeo.org/ccc/para/2399.htm

2399 The regulation of births represents one of the aspects of responsible fatherhood and motherhood. Legitimate intentions on the part of the spouses do not justify recourse to morally unacceptable means (for example, direct sterilization or contraception).

milby · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:39 pm

faithfulservant wrote:

i'm gonna take a huge stab and say no... hysterectomies also do not prevent couples from engaging in the marital debt

Marital debt?

Jeanne D'arc · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 3:57 pm

milby wrote:

Would we be expected to refrain from future sexual relations since it would be an ongoing form of birth control?

No. I know whereof I speak from personal experience, as do several of us on this board. :fyi:

faithfulservant · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 4:57 pm

milby wrote:

faithfulservant wrote:

i'm gonna take a huge stab and say no... hysterectomies also do not prevent couples from engaging in the marital debt

Marital debt?

sorry...i knew i should not have used that expression...scratch it and replace it with sexual relations :wave

Bagheera · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:43 pm

milby wrote:

faithfulservant wrote:

i'm gonna take a huge stab and say no... hysterectomies also do not prevent couples from engaging in the marital debt

Marital debt?

Comes from 1 Cor 7:3-5. The "debt" to which St. Paul refers is the marital embrace, which both husband and wife owe to one another.

kage_ar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 5:44 pm

milby wrote:

faithfulservant wrote:

i'm gonna take a huge stab and say no... hysterectomies also do not prevent couples from engaging in the marital debt

Marital debt?

Fulfilling the request for the marital debt would be wording it a bit better.

Husbands, your bodies are not your own - sound familiar?

AGH force fingered

Peetem · **Posted:** Mon Jun 11, 2012 6:24 pm

milby wrote:

My wife had her "tubes tied" nine years ago after our last child was born. If we were to convert to the Catholic church how would we deal with this? Or how would the Church view this?

You will find forgiveness, which you can scarcely imagine, in the Catholic Church.

Signum Crucis · **Posted:** Wed Jun 13, 2012 12:53 pm

milby wrote:

Would we be expected to refrain from future sexual relations since it would be an ongoing form of birth control?

A tubal ligation is not an "ongoing form of birth control"; it is sterilization which renders one incapable of conceiving a child. You can't control something which can never occur, in this case that something is birth.

Cyprian · **Posted:** Thu Jun 14, 2012 6:02 am

23 years ago my wife had her tubes tied. At the time it seemed like the thing to do. We both agreed. Today, I deeply regret having encouraged her to do so. I pray God's forgiveness for having encouraged such a foolish and unnatural thing.

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