NATURAL WOMAN: Good basic piece on natural family planning: “I had no idea I was so beautiful. I found myself near tears one day looking at my chart and thinking, ‘Truly, I am fearfully and wonderfully made.’ My fertility is not a disease to be treated. It is a wonderful gift. I am a wonderful gift.”

She had to fight hard to even find out what the Church teaches and how to implement NFP. That’s just lousy. We can do bettah!

Via the Old Oligarch and his Mantis Mate. If you are one of the freaky people who find bizarro philosophico-literary discussions in postgraduate-damaged language more enticing, you can find a great discussion of NFP and the “language of the body” here. Me? I think English majors, who know that objects in the world (the signifiers in art) are arrows toward a deeper or higher meaning (the signified), should be the most receptive to NFP.