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The Art Of Natural Family Planning In The Light Of John F. Kippley
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SCOPE OF STUDY
My work is centered more on the two methods of family
planning including the analysis of both of them. However, for the
purpose of precision and of the requirements of this study, the research
is limited to the views of J. F. Kippley.
METHODOLOGY OF RESEARCH
Owing
to the nature of this work, which is historical and explorative, the
method used is expository, descriptive, analytical and evaluative. The
expository and descriptive method treated on the nature, origin and
history of family planning. That of the analysis treats on the
differences among the different methods of family planning as well as
the merits and shortcomings. And then, the evaluative will help in
accessing the different methods of family planning so as to find out the
suitable and more risk free. As a philosophical inquiry, this study
would try to analyze the ‘raison d’etre’ of the whole philosophy behind
the issue of family planning.
In general, the work is divided into
four chapters. Chapter one offers the meaning of family planning as well
as the historical view on family planning. The second chapter exposes
and examines the different kinds of family planning that are applicable
in our society today. In chapter three, I will discuss the analysis of
Mr. J.F. Kippley’s notion of family planning. Then, the fourth chapter
will critically evaluate the whole intellectual exposure.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Before
we proceed into our main work, it will be right to see the notion of
various people who have either said or done something in favour of one
of the two methods of family planning. Thus, studies have shown that
while some people are greatly in favour of the natural family planning,
others are on the other hand in support of the artificial method of
family planning. We are therefore to see those various individuals and
organization that did something in favour of one of the methods of
family planning.
The first person to consider here is Pope Pius XI’s
stand and condemnation of unnatural methods of family planning. For him,
there should always be both a call to generosity in the service of life
and the acceptance of the principle of spacing babies through natural
family planning.
Pope Paul VI in his ‘humanae vitae’, one of his
encyclical letter in July 25th, 1968, lending weight to the course of
natural family planning made this assertion:
If we look further to
physical, economic, psychological and social conditions, responsible
parenthood is exercised by those who, guided by prudent consideration
and generosity, elect to accept many children. Those are also to be
considered responsible who, for serious reasons and with due respect for
moral precepts, decided not to have another child for either a definite
or an indefinite amount of time.[2]
Another person to observe his
opinion is His Eminence, The Grand Imam Sheikh of al-Azhar University in
Cairo, who once provided conference goers with a booklet which was
prepared by his international Islamic center for population studies,
saying that Islam categorically condemns abortion…except…to…preserve the
mother’s life.[3]
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