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[Sibyl Smirl]

On 7/31/16 4:01 PM, Scott Knitter wrote:
> Scott, who remembers spotting a mysterious pill dispenser in Mom &
> Dad's bedroom years ago. "Surely it couldn't be The Pill, because
> we're Catholic and don't believe in that, right? Maybe it's something
> Mom needs every month..." Yeah, uh, something like that. (It's The
> Pill.)

My best friend, many long years ago, was unmarried at one point, but did 
have irregular periods.  She was RC.  Her doctor prescribed The Pill for 
her, to regularize her periods, which was a great relief to her and her 
boyfriend.  When she did get married, she wanted children, as many as 
possible as soon as possible, and her husband was okay with that, so she 
dropped the Pills.  That probably wouldn't have worked for your mother, 
though, since usually periods that are irregular in adolescence 
regularize as soon as they start again after a first baby.

I'm not sure about RCC rulings, though... I remember long after that, 
after AIDS developed, nuns in Africa were passing out condoms in order 
for traveling husbands to not bring it home to their wives, and Rome put 
a stop to that when they heard about it.  Condoms weren't permissible 
even to prevent disease, and irregular periods are pretty trivial when 
compared to AIDS...


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Sibyl Smirl
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