In reply to Lynn.

It isn't that we believe birth control is inherently wrong. Spacing out your children or delaying pregnancy until a more stable time is fine. The issue with birth control is when it is used to completely avoid God's command to "Be fruitful and multiply."

The problem with a number of the birth control methods mandated by the ACA is that they have the potential to destroy an embryo - which we very much believe is murder. In my edition of the Catechism, the explanation of the Fifth Commandment goes into how suicide, murder, euthanasia and abortion are all sins.