10/02/2026
What does the Catholic Church teach about birth control?
Last year, a student asked me this question. I didn't know enough about the topic to answer right away, so I started doing some research.
Through a series of connections, I found Sister Renee Mirkes, an expert in women’s health. She explained that the Catholic Church teaches that using contraception specifically to prevent pregnancy is morally wrong because it separates the two purposes of the marital act: unity and procreation. However, using birth control to treat a genuine medical condition, such as irregular periods or hormonal issues, can be morally permissible when the intention is to treat the condition rather than prevent pregnancy.
But, just because it is morally permissible, does that make it GOOD medicine? To help illustrate this distinction, Sister Renee compares the widely used Mirena IUD with NaProTECHNOLOGY, a women’s health approach that seeks to monitor and support a woman’s reproductive and gynecological health. Birth control masks symptoms while NaProTECHNOLOGY gets the root cause.
This gets to the heart of what health care is supposed to do: help the body function properly. We go to the eye doctor to address problems with our vision, and we treat an infection because something in the body is not working as it should. Good health care seeks to understand the problem and restore health. Birth control intentionally alters or suppresses certain natural functions of the reproductive system.
Using both science AND our Catholic faith, NaProTECHNOLOGY offers an approach to women’s health that seeks to understand and treat the underlying causes of reproductive and gynecological problems while PROTECTING the natural fertility of women.
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