The Contraception Guidebook: Options, Risks, and Answers for Christian Couples

This thorough, engagingly written guidebook equips Christian couples to make fully informed decisions about the deeply personal questions of contraception. Written in a conversational, first-person style, the book provides couples solid medical information on every option, old and new, with success rates and risk factors. The authors explore the multiple sides of spiritual and ethical considerations surrounding contraception. Using key biblical passages, they reveal how the Bible can guide us by giving solid underlying principles. Written by a male ob-gyn physician/theologian and a female journalist/theologian, The Contraception Guidebook is packed with scenarios and dilemmas of real-life couples, with questions for discussion at the end of each chapter to help Christian couples sort through their options.

This comprehensive guide with its conversational, first-person style, anecdotes from real-life couples, and solid medical information equips Christian couples to make fully informed decisions about the complex and deeply personal questions of contraception.

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Reviewed by Ginny (TX), April 13, 2005

The Contraception Guidebook, written by William Cutrer and Sandra Glahn is an outstanding resource of information for young married couples as they begin their lives together as a family. In addition, it would be an invaluable tool for others who are in a position to offer counsel on the subject of contraception. I especially appreciated the procedural/medical information as it relates to spiritual, ethical, emotional, and relational issues. Cutrer and Glahn write, “In this work we will reason from Scriptures as often and as carefully as we can, but where the Bible is silent, we’ll acknowledge that silence.” Each section of the book has questions that can either be answered or worked through while a couple is reading together or tossed independently in their thoughts and then brought to the table for comparison and discussion. I loved the anecdote noted from some of Dr. Cutrer’s counseling sessions with engaged couples regarding expectations. The couple sitting back to back is instructed to hold up fingers representing the number of children they hope to have during their marriage. I can imagine some of the surprised (and perhaps horrified) looks when the numbers were revealed! This writing is easy to read and written in a relaxing, yet professional style. Scriptural references, as well as, medical data are used richly for support and for further self-study. There is a complete glossary included to help with the medical terms that are necessary to the reading. As I read the book I thought, I wish I had information like this available to me twenty-five years ago! As a young wife in 1978 I asked my then OB/GYN about birth-control, without discussion he wrote me a Rx for a year’s supply of once a day pills. I think the information supplied in this book could not only help a couple make good choices as they consider the many options of contraception but is certain to strengthen their bond to one another.

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Author: William Cutrer and Sandra Glahn
Located in: Louisville and Dallas
Submitted: February 05, 2006

    Tell us a little about yourself.  Dr. Cutrer teaches at the Southern Baptist Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. Sandra Glahn teaches at Dallas Seminary. We have authored seven books together, each of which in some way relates to reproductive issues and bioethics. Some such as this are non-fiction, but we have also written medical thrillers and a couple of books on infertility.

    What was your motivation behind this project?  We were motivated to write this because of the need we saw for balanced general information on both sides of the contraception question. We were also concerned about misinformation we had encountered about oral contraceptives. Couples choosing to use contraception who also value human life at the one-cell stage need to know what options are in line with their beliefs.

    What do you hope folks will gain from this project?  That couples will prayerfully consider God's will for themselves as it relates to family building.

    Anything else you'd like readers / listeners to know:  One of our readers recently told us she thought she was well-informed, yet while reading this book, she learned about options she didn't even know existed.

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