Population Control: Nature's Harmless Way

At the time of creation, the most compelling responsibility given to the first couple was to multiply and then to manage their environment well. It would appear that the Creator-in-Chief did not have place for birth reduction. But he has place for birth control. We know this from the working of many things he set in the medium of nature; and from instructions received through his special messangers.

The Supreme One forbids murder in any form (manslaughter, euthanasia et seq.), excepting in the elimination of criminal souls whose presence is a deliberate danger to other people. Yet the supreme one could not be supremely loving if he wills humankind to go on multiplying and become uncomfortably populous. This would surely counter effect the endeavour to preserve or conserve the environment.

In attempts to have their way, by ignorance or by rejection of the original way, man has devised ways of curbing his population. These ways often cut across the lines drawn by the Creator, and the natural functioning of the reproductive body.The result is that "solutions" or results are themselves problems. They produce individual side effects and general environmental effects.
Most of the materials that control birth abortively, (and some that do so non-abortively) are pollutants, micro-pollutants. They deviate the natural normality of the body, thereby, dis-easing the user, even after the initial intention (pregnancy elimination) had been achieved.

With the careful study of human reproductive physiology by people through the ages, systematized by John Billings and colleagues, the Creator's programmes of birth control, which forbids murder and at the same time disallows excessive population, were rediscovered.
Billings Method of Birth control is essentially a careful co-operation with nature; working alongside natural physiologic cycles of changes in human reproductive system in achieving or avoiding pregnancy. Unlike most other methods, it has no side effects; adds nothing to, and subtracts nothing from, what there is already materially. It promotes some awareness that would otherwise be away from awareness. Nature always says the words of Socrates: "Man, know yourself."

BM of birth control joyfully gives the woman the opportunity or "project" to be a student (a scientist) of her body, especially her reproductive physiology.
The Billings method of birth control in family (named after Mr. and Mrs. John and Lynn Billings) depends on the understanding of ovulation mucus. Ovulation is the releasing of the woman's mature reproductive seed (ovum) from her egg sac into her fallopian tube, through which it enters the womb (uterus). Conception depends on ovulation.

A woman is intermittently fertile from menarche to menopause due from the intermittency of ovulation. To achieve or avoid conception, a woman (and her man) must recognize the"feelings" indicative of optimum and minimum fertility; and also those of non-fertility, during an ovulation cycle. According to Dr. Leonie McSweeney, in the book Love and Life, there are several "feelings" the normal woman perceives in the course of each ovulation cycle:
1. Menstrual stuff (menses)
2. Sticky, pappy mucus
3. Slippery and stretchy mucus (jellylike); translucent, sometimes clear
4. Dry(nothing)ness

These are indicative of different measures of "conceivability". Sexual intercourse, even genital contact without penetration, during the slippery-stretchy phase usually results in conception. In the dryness phase, it does not.

Nature in its multi-dimensional wealth and wisdom, varies this periodicity woman by woman, and from time to time, in same woman in different circumstancs (breast-feeding, ill-health, agitated or depressed mood...). So it is not an acute routine. Each cycle is unique.

A couple who want to control when and where they enact pregnancy, need to keep a faithful record of these things. They must chart the "feelings" daily throughout their reproductive age.

Often, what other astute intellectual and professional endeavours fail to do, is simply achieved through BM. childless couples have become parents by procreation; husbands-and-wives have planned and established their families orderly. Whatever promotes love and harmony promotes fidelity.

The BM co-ordinates the minds, bodies and spirituality of the procreative partners, so that the sexual act is not just a mere act, but a living of life in love, passion, harmony and faith, with respect for life and for the LifeGiver.