Natural family planning is not a medical issue. Its science is at the junior-high school level. We have been told by both doctors and nurses that while they learned about the reproductive system during their medical training, we put it together in a way that makes sense.
We want to emphasize again that NFP is not a medical teaching. When we started here in Cincinnati, one of our best friends was a doctor who was 100% with us. He and his wife had previously taught in the diocesan program which was discontinued about the time we started. They did not join us in teaching because they did not want to give the impression that you needed to be a doctor to teach natural family planning. The same could be said about Dr. Konald Prem. He was a full professor of Ob-Gyn at the University of Minnesota medical school; he taught the sympto-thermal part of our first course in the Twin Cities, and he attended a few subsequent courses, but he soon discontinued once he saw that we and our teachers were teaching accurately.
We are grateful to Dr. Konald Prem for including all the fertility signs in our NFP teaching program, and he was also a strong promoter of exclusive breastfeeding and ecological breastfeeding.
John and Sheila Kippley