Gynecologist employs natural family planning principles in practice

Published: 2006-02-28

ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich. (CNS) -- For Dr. Daniel Greene, there's no more debating the point: God made the human body, and he knows what's best for it. As a result, Greene, a gynecologist and member of St. Mary of the Hills Parish in the Detroit suburb of Rochester Hills, has decided that natural family planning is the only form of birth control he will prescribe. "It's crystal clear to me," said Greene, who has practiced obstetrics and gynecology for 11 years. "It makes perfect sense as to why one would choose to live the culture of life or practice natural family planning or embrace the church's teaching on human sexuality. I think a lot of people just haven't looked at it," he told The Michigan Catholic, newspaper of the Archdiocese of Detroit. Natural family planning refers to forms of birth regulation which, in conformity with Catholic teaching, do not involve the use of any artificial means of contraception. Different natural methods all share two basic elements: monitoring of the woman's monthly fertility cycle and abstinence during her fertile period except when the couple wants to have a baby.

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