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The world is witnessing a tremendous growth in population. Countries are gradually becoming afraid of being over populated without corresponding increase in basic infrastructures and food production. Increasing migration occasioned by overpopulation of some parts of the world has become an international crisis. Consequently, the call for birth control and family planning has become loud and indispensable. This work examines the controversy surrounding family planning in all its aspects. From the moral and Catholic Church perspective the work basically considered the artificial means of birth control and natural family planning with regard to their goals, aim and end products as well the consequences, benefits and challenges of their use. The work adopts the qualitative research method, with secondary data collected from written literature and internet sources. In conclusion the work holds that any family planning method which disregards the sacredness of human life is morally reprehensible and must be rejected.
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1 Department of Religious and Cultural Studies, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria
2 Department of Philosophy, University of Calabar, Calabar, Nigeria