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Angela —
You may take the hormone, but you
would need to practice abstinence
during your fertile times, because
the pill causes abortions as one
of its modes of actions. You would
be taking it under the principle
of double effect — a neutral
or good action (taking a hormone)
for a good effect (therapy for a
disorder) also has bad effects that
you don't intend (aborting a child,
and separating the unitive and procreative
meaning of the marital act).
The first bad effect is of such gravity
that one must do whatever one can
to avoid it. The second bad effect
cannot be helped, and the Church
has specifically said that necessary
medical therapies that cause temporary
or permanent infertility can be pursued however, the pill doesn't really
cure anything; it just addresses
symptoms.
I would advise you to contact a NaProTECHNOLOGY physician or a Creighton
Model fertility Care Specialist
(a lay person or nurse trained in
this, who helps a doctor).
The physicians have developed more
refined and very successful ways
of dealing with endometriosis and
other problems. If they use hormones,
they are different ones than the
pill, and can be taken in a way that
doesn't endanger your health, as
the pill does.
Mary Ann
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