Experts in reproductive and family health on Thursday in Abuja called on members of the Catholic Church in Nigeria to embrace modern family planning techniques, including the use of condoms, describing them as more effective than "the natural methods."
The Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Territory Primary Healthcare Development Board, Dr. Rilwanu Mohammed and the FCT Team Leader of Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, Mrs. Adebusola Salako, said this during an award organised by NURHI for people who provide family planning services.
They said though Catholics were embracing natural family planning, "it leads to accidental discharge which cannot be stopped."
Mohammed said, "By accidental discharge, it means sometimes the men cannot hold their own body while making love with their wives using the natural family planning techniques. Natural family planning means the number of times a woman will have her menstrual flow (safe period) in which they will not have pregnancy. They can make love within that safe period by using condoms.
"Yet the Catholics are still against condoms; we are therefore appealing to members of the Catholic Church to try and embrace modern family planning methods, including the use of condoms, as against the use of rings and other methods which are not effective."
