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Mary Bruno and Emily Frase of FAbM Base, a nonprofit dedicated to fertility awareness. Courtesy of FAbM Base

By Katie Yoder, Our Sunday Visitor, July 27, 2023

Katie Yoder is a contributing editor for Our Sunday Visitor.

When Emily Frase describes her experience with Natural Family Planning (NFP), she points first to the cross.

“We have to have the courage to be like, ‘You know what? Sometimes it is gruesome. Sometimes it really does look like a crucifixion — and that’s okay,’” the 33-year-old president of FAbM Base, a nonprofit dedicated to fertility awareness, told Our Sunday Visitor.

Frase and FAbM Base Executive Director Mary Bruno, 37, shared their experiences with NFP during National NFP Awareness Week. The week takes place around the anniversary of Pope St. Paul VI’s 1968 encyclical, Humanae Vitae, which warns against the dangers of contraception. NFP cooperates with this doctrine by allowing couples to plan families by tracking the fertile window of a woman’s cycle with fertility awareness based methods. …

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