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February 20, 2013

Dr. Billings helped develop widely used method of NFP

Drs. Evelyn and John Billings are pictured in the garden of their home in Melbourne, Australia, in this 2004 file photo. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband pioneered a revolutionary church-backed method for couples to avoid or achieve conception, died February 16 after a short illness.

MELBOURNE, Australia - Dr. Evelyn Billings, who with her husband, John, pioneered research that led them to develop a form of natural family planning supported by the Catholic Church, died Feb. 16 after a short illness. She was 95.

Published in International
March 22, 2012

The two solitudes of family planning

Fr. Terrence Donahue, Dr. Rene Leiva and Fertility Care counsellor Linda Smith at a panel hosted by Saint Paul University Students for Life.

OTTAWA - The same week a student group came under fire for distributing condoms on the Saint Paul University (SPU) campus, a pro-life group hosted a panel on the benefits of natural family planning (NFP), revealing the contrasts between artificial and natural means of preventing pregnancy.

SPU administrators ordered the student group to stop leaving a bowl of condoms for free pickup by students. That prompted a student to write an open letter, backed by 100 others, that led to stories by the news media.

Published in Canada