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Philippine government more inclined to promote natural family planning (Link via Amy Welborn)

This will probably jolt women’s groups and proponents of population management.

The government is going to launch a full-blast campaign to promote natural family-planning (NFP) methods and has tapped the help of the Roman Catholic Church to form a multisectoral movement to campaign for responsible parenthood.

“It [contraceptive] doesn’t work. [Artificial birth control] is more complicated than just giving condoms,” said Health Secretary Manuel Dayrit in a media forum at Clark Field in Pampanga on Thursday.

It was the first time the government publicly admitted that it is now inclined to natural family planning, which is espoused by the Roman Catholic Church. [Read on...]

Having been to an intro seminar on NFP, and also given my general distrust of the pharmaceutical industry, I see this as great news. How many people will listen? Who cares! That the government has scratched the surface of the comprehensive wrongness of artificial contraception is a minor miracle.

Noteworthy link: CCLI