The Catholic Church considers the Natural Method to be the only acceptable way to fulfil the concept of marital love as understood by the Church. It entails abstaining from marital relations during the fertile period of the woman's monthly cycle.
Let us consider the case of a Catholic family with a large number of children where the natural method would be extremely hard to follow in practice and is very far from being 100% reliable. One or other of the couple might decide to have a procedure which would reliably ensure that they had no more children.
If this step is taken for love of the other and in the belief that the choice was in the best interests of their family life it may very well never be regretted, even though it would be quite a sacrifice for one of them.
All either could honestly say was that if this action was an offence against love which is surely the best definition of 'sin' then they would be sincerely sorry and leave it in the hands of God.
My belief is that the 'rights and wrongs' of this issue depend on the hearts and motives of those involved and that such an action is not an intrinsically 'sinful' act.
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