"Moral clap trap?!" I dare say God disagrees with you. Besides the risk of some forms of birth control acting as an abortifacients , a principle in Scripture is that with blessings come responsibility, and that we are not to act contrary to God's purposes for creating something. Here, God created sexual relations as a blessing, and with it come responsibility, most importantly that of accepting the product that God designed this activity to result in, which is that of the conception and birth of a new life.
People are going to have sex.
The fact that man will abuse what God has created (as in here, engaging in sexual relations before marriage) simply does not justify either preventing conception of terminating it. The problem as regards teens is that the government and media etc. promoting fornication (and erotica) as a norm, from co-ed school education to films and scantily-clad "stars" to penalizing marriage.
As for your premise that "birth control is vastly superior to teen pregnancies," just why is that so? Because those involved should not or do not take responsibility for the natural God-ordained consequences for their actions? Then the problem is just that attitude, which your counsel encourages.
If the couple are unwilling to get married, there is a waiting list of people waiting to adopt (but which I think the system makes harder for the typical evangelical family).
You can point to the negative stats in single parent kids, but which also is a result of disobedience to God, and part of the answer is to deal with the welfare system that fosters it.
And by using BC then conservatives have helped to provide a demographic advantage to the 1.5 child bearing liberals, who obtain such advantage mainly thru immigration.
And by relegating the word of God to "moral clap trap" then you misuse the gifts God has given you.
not everybody is religious.
I’m not.
Daniel, I dare say you have not one clue what God thinks. So don’t you dare attempt to tell me the mind of God.