"Love proclaims its presence by signs and the deepest most intimate and most wonderful of human signs of love is the gift of self in sexual intercourse. But the natural outcome (all conditions being fulfilled) of sexual intercourse is the conception of new life. As co-creators the parents bestow life on a new human being. That human being needs love and will, in time, express love: will make love, and a new human being will join us! To remove 'life', 'love' or 'sex' from the circle destroys God's intended balance and produces severe problems for society."

(Deus Caritas Est, 6) 

 other agencies

Fertility Care Scotland is a voluntary organisation which has been working in Scotland since 1976 and whose volunteers teach the Billings Ovulation Method of natural family planning, as well as providing educational speakers on Fertility Awareness and related health information.

Fertility Care Scotland is the one recognised agency for training teachers in the Billings Ovulation Method and receives funding from the Scottish Executive to operate clinics which are run by trained and accredited teachers, all of whom are re-accredited every three years and are on a national regsiter made available to all NHS Health Boards.

Fertility Awareness presentations made by Fertility Care's education workers and presented to pupils attending Catholic secondary schools have been a regular feature in planned programmes of Relationships and Moral Education, and this practice will continue on the invitation from individual schools.

Fertility Care Scotland have been invited to contribute to the 'Called to Love' project and to bring with them their insight into human fertility. This knowledge will be shared with teachers and others involved in the delivery of the project as part of an ongoing programme of CPD training.