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  • verb Present participle of contracept.

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Examples

  • That can and often does hold even if the couple are contracepting, which is why it is possible to consummate a marriage even if, say, the wife is taking birth-control pills.

    Condomania Mike L 2008

  • The faction of Catholic Priests who didn’t accept Humanae Vitae’s teaching on contraception and told couples to "use their consciences" actually ended up "contracepting" themselves out of existence, by not being open to new Priestly life and through their own lack of desire to promote priestly vocations and intentionally blocking the seeds of vocations from growing.

    Confessions of a Young Fogey Argent 2006

  • When you tell a Catholic mom who is working a full time job and contracepting with her husband that her use of the pill is bad because it violates the unity of her marriage while not being on the pill doesn't, she will smile at you and go right on taking the pill.

    Dr. Janet Smith replies to Dr. Schindler, defends Christopher West 2009

  • Should cohabiting or contracepting straight couples avoid the magazine?

    Some of the ways I decide where to submit my work. 2009

  • Or, as recent studies have shown, contracepting females are not attractive to males.

    Phew... Joanna Bogle 2008

  • We sometimes hear it said by enthusiastic non-contracepting parents that it is their goal to "out-populate the enemy."

    Christendom's Building Blocks — Catholic Communities 2008

  • By his own standards, he was contracepting and aborting love children!

    Think Progress » ‘As Many as a Half a Dozen’ Members of Congress May Be Involved in Prostitution Scandal 2006

  • How many contracepting Catholics proudly take Holy Communion?

    sally quinn Dymphna 2008

  • How many contracepting Catholics proudly take Holy Communion?

    Archive 2008-06-01 Dymphna 2008

  • My main worry is not about the Western enemies of the Church, but about what Christians do to themselves by their divisions and their contracepting in the face of militant Islam.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Mike L 2007

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