Richard first heard of the Billings Ovulation Method® in 1996 when challenged by Dr. Agnes Tanguay. She asked a group of university students, “Why does the medical profession prescribe drugs to healthy people?” It made him start to think about the way healthy fertility is treated like an illness and this bothered him. Five years later, he and his wife became involved with the Natural Family Planning Association of Alberta. Over the years, Richard has come to appreciate NFP as the only method of family planning which is actually safe, reliable, reversible, and does not interfere with the implantation of a fertilized embryo.