Marriage Preparation Course - Episode II Attack of the Midwives
This week’s course was based mainly on the subject of ‘Fertility’. Yes Fertility! We had a couple of guest speakers; two midwives from Liverpool who ‘follow catholic teachings’.
They were a fairly entertaining pair, who has a strong rivalry. One did most of the presenting and kept referring to reasons why the other lady was the boss and how she had one less qualification because she’s got kids and the boss doesn’t have any! The boss looked very serious and was straight faced, while the woman doing the presentation was easier going but a bit hyperactive! (she also could have done with taking a bit of wax to her top lip!)
Anyway most of it was interesting enough and explained how to achieve ‘Natural Family Planning’ and how, as far as the church is concerned, all other methods are a sin! Ah! There we go! After about an hour of general information the true agenda came to the fore and we then started to get into the tricky subject of IVF treatment. They said that too was against the teachings of the church. I thought their reasons for this contradicted other things they said and I started to loose interest. Apparently, last time they gave a talk their was a woman on the course that had had a child using IVF and she asked them if they were saying that her child was invalid! And the whole thing turned into a huge argument. It was quite clear that they were glad that they didn’t have to deal that this year and last years events didn’t have any change in their opinion so I decided to not both saying anything myself. No point flogging a dead horse!
I respect their right to have an opinion but I don’t agree with their opinion. I felt that although they seemed well read on the subject, their point of view was that if the church says ‘that’s how it is’ then that’s how it is, even though their arguments contradicted each other. Fortunately I’m capable of forming my own opinions and will carry on doing so.
They were a fairly entertaining pair, who has a strong rivalry. One did most of the presenting and kept referring to reasons why the other lady was the boss and how she had one less qualification because she’s got kids and the boss doesn’t have any! The boss looked very serious and was straight faced, while the woman doing the presentation was easier going but a bit hyperactive! (she also could have done with taking a bit of wax to her top lip!)
Anyway most of it was interesting enough and explained how to achieve ‘Natural Family Planning’ and how, as far as the church is concerned, all other methods are a sin! Ah! There we go! After about an hour of general information the true agenda came to the fore and we then started to get into the tricky subject of IVF treatment. They said that too was against the teachings of the church. I thought their reasons for this contradicted other things they said and I started to loose interest. Apparently, last time they gave a talk their was a woman on the course that had had a child using IVF and she asked them if they were saying that her child was invalid! And the whole thing turned into a huge argument. It was quite clear that they were glad that they didn’t have to deal that this year and last years events didn’t have any change in their opinion so I decided to not both saying anything myself. No point flogging a dead horse!
I respect their right to have an opinion but I don’t agree with their opinion. I felt that although they seemed well read on the subject, their point of view was that if the church says ‘that’s how it is’ then that’s how it is, even though their arguments contradicted each other. Fortunately I’m capable of forming my own opinions and will carry on doing so.
posted by Paul S at 11:01 a.m.
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