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Contraception
The New Apostolic Church cannot give any internationally valid guidelines on the subject of family planning due to the various cultural differences and individual conditions around the world. Nevertheless, the fundamental principles of the Church on the subject are as follows:
- Basically, family planning (birth control) is at the sole discretion of the married couple.
- Sexual activity within matrimony is desired by God as an expression of the couple’s love for one another. Human beings are obliged to act responsibly when it comes to their sexuality. This also includes the decision as to whether a couple wishes to bring children into the world.
- Birth control can be practised with or without the use of contraceptive measures and devices.
- The Church has no objections against contraceptive methods which merely prevent the fertilisation of the egg cell. By contrast, it disapproves of all contraceptive measures in which the development of an already fertilised egg cell is arrested.