{"id":7853,"date":"2008-08-11T03:44:10","date_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/some_protestants_find_spiritual_appeal_in_natural_family_planning\/"},"modified":"2008-08-11T03:44:10","modified_gmt":"2008-08-11T03:44:10","slug":"some_protestants_find_spiritual_appeal_in_natural_family_planning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7853","title":{"rendered":"Some Protestants find spiritual appeal in natural family planning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Phaedra Taylor abstained from sex until marriage. But she began researching birth control methods before she was even engaged, and by the time she married David Taylor, she was already charting her fertility.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor, a fresh-faced 28-year-old who would blend in easily with South Austin bohemians, ruled out taking birth control pills after reading a book that claimed the pill could, in some cases, make the uterus uninhabitable after conception occurred. She viewed that as abortion, which she opposes.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I just wasn&#8217;t willing to risk it,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor wanted her faith to guide her sexual and reproductive decisions after marriage. Natural family planning felt like the best way to honor God, she said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/content\/news\/stories\/local\/08\/10\/0810planning.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phaedra Taylor abstained from sex until marriage. But she began researching birth control methods before she was even engaged, and by the time she married David Taylor, she was already charting her fertility. Taylor, a fresh-faced 28-year-old who would blend<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=7853\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,42,98,154,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-religion-news-commentary","category-marriage-family","category-other-churches","category-religion-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}