Great Article in First Things...

From Agnes R. Howard's article Pregnancy and Moral Labor in the March 2006 edition of First Things:

Stewardship returns us to the need to view pregnancy not as the project of a woman and her doctor, but as a couple's collaboration with God. In that collaboration the woman visibly holds together unitive and procreative love, physically linking eros to the child it engendered; pregnancy's symptoms are both delayed consequences of intimacy and advance signals of another person's coming to be.

A mother's tasks, reflections, and abstentions, from conception through birth, comprise her part of that procreative work. When we think this way about pregnancy, we begin to appreciate it more fully. We admire the way God has arranged the connection of mother and child, the moral good that women in this state are situated to undertake."

This, my friends, is shot through the heart for the 1933 Lambeth Conference's inference that the consequence of unitive and procreative goods in the marital state demand allowance of contraception. Take and read.