The Medical Freedom Channel

“Sandwiched between a swimming pool store and a spice shop on Lee Highway in Fairfax, VA., the Tepeyac Family Center looks like any other suburban doctor’s office. But it isn’t. The practice combines ‘the best of modern medicine with the healing presence of Jesus Christ,’ a brochure at the reception desk announces. An image of the Madonna greets every patient. Doctors, nurses and staff gather to pray each day before the first appointments. The center is one of a small but growing number of practices around the country that tailor the care they provide to the religious beliefs of their doctors, shunning birth-control and morning-after pills, IUDs and other contraceptive devices, sterilizations and abortions, as well as in vitro fertilization. Instead, doctors offer ‘natural family planning’ — teaching couples to monitor a woman’s temperature and other bodily signals to time intercourse.” [editor’s note: Fine for those who want to have (more) children, but obviously not for those who don’t! - SAT] (08/31/06)