FAQ -- Frequently Asked Questions  

If you have a question for the No Room for Contraception team, send an e mail to info@nrfc.net, and we'll post the answer here.

1. What is No Room for Contraception purpose? Why and how did you decide to start it?

The purpose of No Room for Contraception is to expose the harms of contraception on marriage, society and women's health. Both pro-choice and pro-life forces know that the end to legal abortion is coming soon, and many think that we should turn to contraception to decrease the need for abortion; the widespread availability and use of contraception, however, is what created the need for abortion in the first place.

2. What different methods of artificial birth control are there?

The three different kinds of artificial birth control are chemical contraception, barrier contraception and surgical sterilization. Emergency contraception (also known as Plan B or the morning-after pill) is a type of chemical contraception.

3. Does No Room for Contraception oppose all methods of birth control including condoms?

No Room for Contraception opposes all artificial methods of birth control. We support the use of Natural Family Planning for prevention of pregnancy.

Condoms are proven ineffective much of the time in preventing both the transmission of STDs and in preventing pregnancy. By promoting condoms, people are given a false hope and are only encouraged to continue to engage in risky and extramarital sexual activity. This increase in sexual activity increases disease. In the late 1950s, there were only two known types of STDs; now, there are almost 50! If condoms lived up to the expectations of birth control proponents, there would be less disease, not more.

4. What is Natural Family Planning?

Natural Family Planning (NFP) is a scientific method of determining the time a woman ovulates. The time of ovulation is the only time out of a month that a woman can become pregnant and is called the fertile time. Using the NFP method requires that the couple have self-control in order to avoid sexual relations during the wife’s fertile time in order to prevent pregnancy.

5. Is No Room for Contraception a Catholic organization?

The founders of No Room for Contraception are Catholic, however this is not a Catholic organization. The purpose and goal of No Room for Contraception is to expose the harms that artificial contraception brings to marriage and society, and this goal does not require belief in any religious tradition. The Catholic Church has been the only major Christian religion to firmly oppose artificial contraception. Her many documents clearly and prophetically explain this teaching. Because of Her firm leadership against the use of chemical contraception, No Room for Contraception has links to the major Catholic Church documents on this topic, and draws heavily from the works of Catholic theologians and scholars.

6. Do contraception and birth control mean the same thing?

Essentially, yes, these two words have the same meaning. They are used interchangeably on this site and in everyday conversation and medical reference. 

7. What does No Room for Contraception have to say about premarital and extramarital sex?

The proper place for sex is within the commitment of marriage.  Only then can sexual intimacy reach its full purpose and potential.  Sex entails bonding and babies, as Dr. Janet E. Smith notes.  Without marriage, both bonding and babies are pushed aside for the sake of recreation or fleeting pleasure. 

8. How do you feel about going against what has become the norm in the past decades?

Women have been force fed the agenda of the abortion/ contraception movement for almost 100 years. It is time for women to really see what the dangers of contraception are on her health and marriage, and how contraception has lead to the problems of divorce, sexual abuse, disease, cancer and more. These problems have only multiplied since the widespread use of contraceptives.

9. A common argument is that in today's society, sex before marriage has become so common that people are going to have sex whether or not contraceptives are available. How do you feel about the extreme number of unwanted children who will be the result?

The concept of "unwanted children" or "unplanned pregnancy" was born from the agenda of the birth control movement. This movement, which began in the early 20th century with Margaret Sanger, sought to destroy all sense of sacredness regarding sexual activity. The procreation of children was carefully removed from the concept of sexual activity. This attitude has become so commonplace that few people ever stop to question the harms of contraception. No Room for Contraception seeks to bring this evidence to the forefront.

10. More than half of American teenagers are having sex. While it isn't good, it's inevitable. Is it right to refuse contraception?

Teen sex is not inevitable; it's expected. Teens are expected to engage in sexual activity because that is what they are taught in school, through the media and from their friends, parents and peers. If teens were expected to be responsible, have self control and have respect for self and others, we would see a decline in sexual activity outside of marriage, a decline in unexpected pregnancy and a decline in disease. Furthermore, thugs and gangsters "inevitably" kill one another; should we supply them with switch blades and a dark alley and tell them it's their "choice?"

11. The Alan Guttmacher Institute reports that as much as 43 percent of the decline in abortion over the past 10 years can be attributed to emergency contraception. How do you feel about this? What's the lesser of the two evils?

Promotion of Plan B presents many problems with women's health regarding over-dosage and abuse. Plan B is a powerful drug whose dose consists of 12 to 15 times that of a typical oral contraceptive pill. Promoting this regimen is especially dangerous because teens are at a great risk of overdosing.

12. Do you feel birth control is abortion? Do you think pregnancy occurs when the egg is fertilized or when the fertilized egg meets the uterine lining? Please explain.

Pregnancy has been redefined in the medical community as beginning at the moment of implantation, but the biological fact remains that a human life begins at the fertilization of a human ovum with sperm. Many contraceptive methods, including 'Plan B' emergency contraception, are designed to prevent implantation of this new human life. Whether or not this is called an abortion, a human life is still terminated.