It can seem like a cruel joke that God has designed women to go through premenopause at around the same time of their lives that they begin to feel their bodies aging, they may have mid-life tension related to finances or career situations, they likely are parenting teenagers, and may also be caring for aging…

his February — which is National Self-Check month — commit to making your fifth vital sign your most important self-check. Don't accept vague dismissals about what "normal" periods look like (after all, normal and healthy are not always the same). Don't be fooled by the artificial "stability" of the Pill or the lie that to be good, a female body must perform like a man's.

There’s something unsettling about implanting foreign substances into our bodies to stop them from working properly. Men should be repulsed by hormonal contraceptives in any form. Women should feel slighted that they’ve been kept in the dark about better alternatives and convinced that their fertility is a “burden” that falls only on their shoulders. The beauty of NFP is that it respects the dignity of the human person in a way hormonal contraceptives just don't.