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→Catholic teachings on contraception: Link to Vatican Web site for moral guidance
*The Church does not teach that in engaging in intercourse one has to be acting with a view to procreating, an objective one could realistically have in mind only when one was fertile. What she teaches is that sexual intercourse will not make for an authentic unity of two-in-one-flesh if those engaging in it set out to negate its built-in significance as generative/procreation behavior. <ref>[http://www.linacre.org/contra.html Linacre.org]</ref>
*The Church does not teach that in engaging in intercourse one has to be acting with a view to procreating, an objective one could realistically have in mind only when one was fertile. What she teaches is that sexual intercourse will not make for an authentic unity of two-in-one-flesh if those engaging in it set out to negate its built-in significance as generative/procreation behavior. <ref>[http://www.linacre.org/contra.html Linacre.org]</ref>
*The Vatican observes that the only morally sound method of birth control is avoiding sex when the woman is fertile. In contrast, "'every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible' is intrinsically evil."<ref>[http://www.vatican.va/archive/catechism/p3s2c2a6.htm#III]</ref>
==Anglican teachings on contraception==
==Anglican teachings on contraception==