Doctors gather to learn the latest on natural procreative technology

Published: 2004-07-30

OMAHA, Neb. (CNS) -- More than 400 health care professionals from 11 countries and 35 U.S. states gathered in Omaha July 21-24 to learn more about NaProTechnology -- shorthand for natural procreative technology -- at the American Academy of FertilityCare Professionals' 23rd annual conference. The theme of the four-day conference, sponsored by the Pope Paul VI Institute and Creighton University Medical Center, was "Introducing NaProTechnology to the World: Medical Science at the Service of the Human Person." Dr. Thomas Hilgers, director of the Pope Paul VI Institute and co-developer of the Creighton model of natural family planning and NaProTechnology, presented his new 1,300-page medical textbook, "The Medical and Surgical Practices of NaProTechnology," at the international conference. Hilgers, a member of the Pontifical Academy for Life and the Pontifical Council for the Family, describes NaProTechnology as "a union of education and technology in a way which allows us to evaluate and treat a whole host of women's health problems, which does not use contraception, sterilization, abortion or other artificial reproductive technologies, and is thus completely consistent with Catholic teaching."

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