Listen "Chapter 4. Why Not Birth Control?"
Episode Synopsis
God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me.
— Mother Angelica
"I never imagined the challenges I’d experience
with my husband early in marriage. I didn’t just wake up randomly one morning with killer pains. I didn’t know it would become something I would have to plan
my life around. I didn’t know there was so much I didn’t know about my body as a young girl trying to navigate her way into adulthood. In a country that champions women empowerment, self-discovery, and “choice,” where were my options? Where was the education about the incredible design of a woman’s body I so desperately needed? What about my feminine genius? If the theology of the body illuminates the language of love our bodies are supposed to speak, why was my fertility, and its intimate connection to my health, so often left out of the conversation?...""
Pre-order my next book about infertility here:
OSV Catholic Bookstore
— Mother Angelica
"I never imagined the challenges I’d experience
with my husband early in marriage. I didn’t just wake up randomly one morning with killer pains. I didn’t know it would become something I would have to plan
my life around. I didn’t know there was so much I didn’t know about my body as a young girl trying to navigate her way into adulthood. In a country that champions women empowerment, self-discovery, and “choice,” where were my options? Where was the education about the incredible design of a woman’s body I so desperately needed? What about my feminine genius? If the theology of the body illuminates the language of love our bodies are supposed to speak, why was my fertility, and its intimate connection to my health, so often left out of the conversation?...""
Pre-order my next book about infertility here:
OSV Catholic Bookstore
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