Natural Family Planning International

Personal responsibility is one of the keys for the successful operation of a democracy.

Personal responsibility is certainly needed for personal decisions such as birth control.

Personal responsibility requires that individual persons take responsibility for decisions such as a method of birth control whether it is a form of natural family planning or various chemical or physical methods.  That responsibility includes financial responsibility.

The use of taxpayers’ funds for birth control contradicts the idea that individual persons should take responsibility for their personal choices. Taxpayers’ funds should not be used for any form of birth control.

The personal decision to use Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCPs) carries not only a greatly increased risk of breast cancer, but it also carries a greatly increased risk that taxpayers’ funds will have to be used to treat the disease.  According to the adage, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” certainly taxpayers’ funds should never be used for OCPs.

A letter to your Congressional representatives urging the adoption of personal responsibility for all personal decisions as a theme for the use of taxpayers’ funds might give them the enlightenment they need.  Also, it is simply contradictory to spend “health care” funds on drugs and procedures that are not necessary and can be harmful.

A resolution for 2011: Enter into your email address book the name, office address, email address and phone number of your Congressman and both Senators.

John F. Kippley
Sex and the Marriage Covenant

Frequently I receive notices of crib and formula recalls.  Coming this June the U. S. will outlaw the drop-side baby crib.  At keepingbabiessafe.org, we learn that “Cribs continue to be the leading cause of death and injury among all nursery products.”  Yet here in the United States parents are usually told to place their baby in a crib and never to sleep with their baby.

A breastfeeding mother can be taught how to sleep safely with her baby.  Any interested parents can go to  NFPI “links” and scroll down for this information.  In my book, The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding, 21 benefits are given as to why co-sharing sleep with your baby is a good idea.

This past September (2010) five million containers of Similac-brand powder infant formula sold in the United States, Puerto Rico, Guam and some Caribbean countries were recalled because the formula containers  may have been contaminated with insect parts.  As one friend noted, “human milk has never had insect parts.”  This gives parents one more reason to consider other infant sleep options and to seriously consider breastfeeding.  For more information on bedsharing, see RISCS website.

Sheila Kippley
The Seven Standards of Ecological Breastfeeding