29/07/2026
Someone asked me the question in the picture yesterday in my last teaching about artificial family and this is my answer Atuonah Amaka Ter Chris 👇🏽
Yes, I am Catholic, and I am fully aware of the Catholic Church’s teaching on artificial family planning.
However, being Catholic does not mean I have to pretend that every woman can safely or successfully practise Natural Family Planning.
I personally do not endorse a doctrine that, in my view, does not adequately address the realities many women face.
My concern is practical: women have different bodies, different cycles, different health conditions, different levels of fertility awareness, and different circumstances.
Natural family planning may work well for some women, but it is not equally suitable or reliable for everyone.
I have also seen how unintended pregnancies within marriage, sometimes resulting from ineffective or unsuitable family-planning methods, can put women and families in extremely difficult situations and, sadly, can contribute to abortion—even within marriage.
That is why I choose to educate women about all available family-planning options, including natural and artificial methods.
Education does not mean I am telling everyone to use a particular method. It means giving women accurate information so they can make responsible decisions.
My message remains simple: have the children you can genuinely afford to raise, give your body adequate time to recover between pregnancies, and avoid finding yourself in a d£sperate situation because you were not properly informed about your fertility and family-planning options.
I respect my faith, but I also believe that women’s health and real-life circumstances deserve honest conversations—not silence.
Bring out 10 women on natural family planning and you would find out that it has failed more than 5 of them.
You may not agree with my opinion but i teach as a health practitioner and women health educator and not as a religious sister 🚶🚶🚶