Serving Women & Families
of Alabama
NFP Mission
Learning and promoting Natural Family Planning (NFP) or, Fertility Awareness methods, helps individuals and couples understand and promote authentic human sexuality, the virtue of chastity, marriage, conjugal love, and responsible parenthood by achieving or avoiding pregnancy, and the value of children. Additionally, learning fertility awareness through charting cycles may help women, teens, and couples identify science-based biomarkers to facilitate preventative or restorative healthcare and become better advocates for their health. Early detection of these biomarkers may also help identify risk factors for cancer, infection, miscarriage, and premature birth, for example. This knowledge fulfills initiatives to respect life, and the potential for such life, created in a woman’s body, from conception to natural death.
Fertility and body literacy educate a woman allowing for informed consent healthcare. Chemical, surgical, and barrier (artificial) means of family planning leave a woman uniformed.
Goals
- Continuing education, enrichment, and support for diocesan NFP teachers, couples, and individuals
- Up-to-date research on effectiveness across all NFP methods
- Collaboration with NFP teachers of different methods
- Helping women identify best NFP method for their state in life and specific health needs and fertility goals
- Resources to grow a family through adoption and foster care
- Resources for premature birth prevention
- Grief support and resources to reduce miscarriage
- Abortion Pill Reversal resources here
- Theology references for NFP
- Promotion of fertility/ovulation cycle awareness in women and teens as preventative health, pro-life, and responsible stewardship
- Promotion of NFP use through marriage preparation programs
- Connecting couples with healthcare providers who can help them achieve or avoid pregnancy through affordable, moral and ethical means