"Family Planning.": Women and Men
"Family Planning.": Women and Men
"Family Planning.": Women and Men
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2 What Is Family Planning?
Having the number of children you want, when you want them.
3 If a person wants to wait to have children or to decide when to have children, there are
many ways to prevent pregnancy
5 In America, many people use family planning and control when they have children
6 All of the family planning methods we will talk about are used safely by millions of
women and men
9 More Food Fewer children means more food for each child
10 More Time Fewer children can mean more time for parents to spend with their children
11 Education Waiting to have children can give women and men time to finish their
education
13 A person has the right to decide how many children they want to have
It’s A Right!A person has the right to decide how many children they want to have
14 It’s a Right!A woman has the right to protect her health from the risks of pregnancy
15 What if a woman’s husband says NO?
She must decide if she will use family planning anywaySome methods of family planning
can be used without the man knowing
16 Preventing Pregnancy
17 A Pregnancy Happens When…
After a man ejaculates inside a woman, the man’s sperm and the woman’s egg join together
to make a zygote.When the zygote attaches to the side of a woman’s womb, a pregnancy
begins.
19 Barrier methods work by physically preventing the man’s sperm from joining with
the woman’s egg
27 Natural MethodsNatural methods help a woman know when she is fertile, so that she
can avoid having sex at that time.A woman is usually fertile during the middle days of her
monthly bleeding cycleA woman is usually NOT fertile when she is breastfeeding for the first
6 months after her baby is born
28 Breastfeeding as a family planning method works only if:
The baby is less than 6 months oldThe woman breastfeeds the baby every 6 hours and the
baby eats no other foodHer monthly bleeding cycle hasn’t started yet
29 Permanent MethodsA doctor makes it impossible for men and women to have any more
childrenThe operation for a man is called a VASECTOMYThe operation for a woman is
called a TUBAL LIGATION
36 Where to get it?A person can buy CONDOMS at most stores. They can get them for
free at some clinics.A person can get EMERGENCY FAMILY PLANNING at a pharmacy (if
they are older than 17 years old)
37 Where to Get it?To get any of the other methods of family planning, a person has to call
their doctorIf a woman is younger than 17 years old, she has to call her doctor to get
emergency family planning.
CONCLUSION
By using contraception, couples may think that they are avoiding problems or easing
tensions, that they are exerting control over their lives. But the gift of being able to help
create another person, a new human being with his or her own life, involves profound
relationships. It affects our relationship with God, who created us complete with this
powerful gift. It involves whether spouses will truly love and accept each other as they are,
including their gift of fertility.
Finally, it involves the way spouses will spontaneously accept their child as a gift from God
and the fruit of their mutual love. Like all important relationships with other persons, it is not
subject solely to our individual control. In the end, this gift is far richer and more rewarding
than that.
The Church’s teaching on marital sexuality is an invitation for men and women—an
invitation to let God be God, to receive the gift of God’s love and care, and to let this gift
inform and transform us, so we may share that love with each other and with the world.