The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, and Answers for Christian Couples by William R. Cutrer and Sandra L. Glahn

A Comprehensive Christian Guide to Contraception

The Contraception Guidebook equips you to make fully informed decisions about the complex and deeply personal issue of contraception. Written in a personal, engaging style by a male obstetrician/gynecologist and a female educator and journalist, both theologians, this easy-to-read book is packed with the most current medical information on every option, old and new. You’ll also learn the success rates, ethical considerations, and risk factors involved, gain insights from real-life couples facing different concerns, and obtain medically reliable and biblically sound wisdom for your questions. Each chapter ends with questions to help you and your mate communicate on key issues.

Owner Reviews, Ratings, Comments and Criticism
This book offers sound medical advice while encouraging you to seek God's Will. If only we could find OB/GYNs out there that offered the same thing. Too many people blindly accept hormonal birth control without realizing the risks and ethical issues surrounding it. This book really explains the risks without making you feel "dirty" for using them. It leaves the choice up to the reader. But given the evidence, I am not sure any Pro-Life Christian could blindly accept "the pill" from their doctor again. I have read many books on family planning in the Christian marriage. Most of them say to keep having as many babies as possible. The authors do an excellent job in explaining that some couples are called to be parents of 8 children, while quite frankly, some are not. After having four children in five years, I am ready for a break. This book helped me to realize that God did intend intimacy in marriage to be "recreational" at times and not always procreative. While we do still intend on having more children, the authors gave us sound scriptural references to back up our decision to wait awhile. We aren't sinning by using contraception. What a relief! Many thanks to the authors for this excellent resource. I am passing it on to my husband's brother and his fiancee. I hope they can get as much out of it as we did!