Thank you for your question. In cases in which a woman is truly gravely endangered by a pregnancy, it would be permissible for the couple to practice periodic abstinence. (Note, however, that doctors are notorious for urging couples to avoid childbearing. We suggest that you rely on the guidance of a trustworthy priest in such a serious matter.) Anyone who has had a tubal ligation must have that very sinful procedure reversed. Meanwhile, it would not be necessary to wait until that reversal is accomplished to begin the process of entering the Church. God bless you.
I am 55 and still fertile. My husband is 61. We have had four children. I feel I am too old to have any more. We have sex less and less frequently because of the possiblitiy of pregnancy. What is the right thing to do? Should I take the chance of getting pregnant again?
This is an important question of conscience, which we urge you to discuss in person with a trustworthy confessor. God bless you. sspx.org/en/mass-locator
Here is my situation, the doctors frown on me and strongly recommends that I should get my tubes tied or removed because it can be dangerous to my life and the fetus. Due to the chance of uterus abruption. I had 4 c-section, the 1st c-section was classical. Yet I still believe that God gave me a chance go have kids, I should not take it away... but I am trying to use different forms of birth control, and still feel bad. Is it a sin too?
+Rachelle “rockingRachelle” Blan Every form of contraception is a terrible sin, a grave crime, as Pope Pius XI affirmed in his encyclical On Christian Marriage: "No reason, however grave, may be put forward by which anything intrinsically against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good. Since, therefore, the conjugal act is destined primarily by nature for the begetting of children, those who in exercising it, deliberately frustrate its natural power and purpose, sin against nature and commit a deed which is shameful and intrinsically vicious." (Casti Connubii, #54)
