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Click on a headline below to read columns from the special "Blessings of Life" series which appeared on the Columns page of Arkansas Catholic beginning May 12, 2012.
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
I am typically a private person, so this column is a little outside my comfort zone. However, the recent debate regarding the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services mandate and the Church has prompted me to rethink what my comfort zone should be. While my husband and I are certified teachers of natural family planning through the Couple to More... 
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
My husband leaned in close, "They are going to give you some medicine that will make it stop." He meant "stop my heart," not the contractions. I'm a multi-tasker -- I was experiencing both pre-term labor and a persistent heart arrhythmia. It was like my body was trying to give birth, while running a marathon, on my back. After five More...
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
When we get married, we are called to enter into a union that is a total gift of self to each other. In this way we mirror God's love for us, as he totally gave himself to save us from our sins.
I think of my motherhood as a natural extension of my role as wife. God has created our very More...
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
As a practicing general pediatrician, I occasionally get asked to prescribe contraceptives. The reasons are varied: from contraceptive desires to abnormal bleeding, and even for acne.
People ask very casually for "the pill" and are often surprised when I tell them I do not prescribe them. Generally, after explaining that I have theological and medical concerns about the pill and sharing More...
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
Recently there has been much debate regarding what is best for women. As a woman I feel bombarded by countless messages about what others believe is good for me, my body and my sexuality.
At times I even feel that these messages imply that the amazing ability to conceive a child is a weakness of my body that should be corrected, More...
One of a series of six special columns written by Catholic women on family planning issues.
My husband Ed and I have been married eight years. We were not always on the natural family planning (NFP) bandwagon. It took a lot of prayer, years of bad decisions and some very encouraging friends to help us find the way. Like many women today, I used contraception. I was a convert to the faith and knew little about More...
Father Jason Tyler introduces a special series of columns written by Catholic women on family planning and contraception issues to appear in the next six issues of Arkansas Catholic.
If you haven't read the U.S. bishops' April 12 statement "Our First, Most Cherished Liberty," it's worth a few minutes of your time. In seeking to uphold religious liberty, the bishops do not rely solely on references to sacred Scripture or the Catechism of the Catholic Church More...
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