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I am an orthodox Christian, currently engaged and soon to be married. What are the allowed ways of family planning. Is it sinful to practice pulling out and ejaculating outside?

The Church's stance is always pro-life. The Church allows contraceptives that do not interfere with a fertilized egg. The measure that you described is not allowed as it is written in the Holy Book of Genesis 38:6-10:

"Then Judah took a wife for Er his firstborn, and her name was Tamar. But Er, Judah's firstborn, was wicked in the sight of the Lord, and the Lord killed him. And Judah said to Onan, "Go in to your brother's wife and marry her, and raise up an heir to your brother." But Onan knew that the heir would not be his; and it came to pass, when he went in to his brother's wife, that he emitted on the ground, lest he should give an heir to his brother. And the thing which he did displeased the Lord; therefore He killed him also."