Evangelicals do not believe birth control is wrong. Evangelical churches do not preach that Catholic Doctrine. As you must know, apart from testifying to being the most conservative significant religious body for decades, as well as voting 74-81% for the GOP presidential candidate, on contraceptives they overall embraced it, but in recent years there has been a minority but significant move against them, while evangelicalism itself becomes watered down (which included most definitions by surveys for them).
I am with the latter on this:
March 5, 2014
A good many evangelicals hope to do far more than sow seeds of doubt about the morality of birth control,” Mohler replied. “Our concern is to raise an alarm about the entire edifice of modern sexual morality and to acknowledge that millions of evangelicals have unwittingly aided and abetted that moral revolution by an unreflective and unfaithful embrace of the contraceptive revolution.” In a 2012 column for the Christian Post, Mohler said most evangelical Protestants welcomed the development of artificial birth control as a medical advance just as they celebrated the discovery of penicillin. A shift occurred in the 1980s, with the rise of the Religious Right and opposition to abortion on demand.
Contraceptives vs abortifacients Affirming life as sacred at the moment of conception caused many to view intrauterine devices not as contraceptives but abortifacients, he said, and that conviction has extended to the use of oral contraceptives. - https://www.baptiststandard.com/news/faith-culture/southern-baptist-attitudes-changing-on-birth-control/
Oct 7, 2017 How birth control became part of the evangelical agenda Trump’s latest birth control rollbacks seem like a victory for the religious right. But why?...
the evangelical stance on the ACA birth control mandate reflects a wider issue: the increased convergence of Catholics and evangelical Protestants — hardly historical allies — on social issues in the past few decades, as issues like the same-sex marriage debate and abortion have united the two socially conservative groups....
Talcott noted that objection to birth control among evangelicals had been more prevalent prior to the developments of the 20th century. Christians disenchanted by the outcomes of the sexual revolution, he said, might find themselves “attracted to the older view, the historic forms of marriage and Christianity and trying to see what resources are maybe there for trying to help us figure out what to do today in this sort of Wild West of Christianity...
For those evangelicals, birth control — particularly the Pill — represents the worst excesses of the sexual revolution:..
A 2015 article in Al Jazeera profiled a number of evangelical Christians who took this stance, including Andrew Walker, director of policy studies at the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, who said, “The idea of talking about children as a ‘scare’ and viewing them as an obstacle to the American dream, that’s not a Christian way of looking at family...
For some evangelicals, furthermore, birth control is synonymous not just with the sexual revolution but with feminism more generally. In 2001’s Lies Women Believe, a popular evangelical book by Christian radio host Nancy Leigh DeMoss, treats contraception as indicative of a much more insidious feminist mindset, coding it as a diabolical celebration of female selfishness that leads “to the legitimization and promotion of such practices as contraception, sterilization, and family planning. As a result, unwittingly, millions of Christian women and couples have helped further Satan’s attempts to limit human reproduction and thereby destroy life.”
This perspective reached its apex with fringe movements like “Quiverfull,” whose best-known representatives, the Duggars
And I should post this:
A bitter pill: Why Christians are rethinking contraception...
2 September 2024
Women’s wellbeing and the pill appear intertwined and symbiotic. So why have some secular feminists started to question this dogma?
One concern is medical: that the side effects of hormonal birth control have been downplayed. “Contrary to cultural myth, the birth-control pill impacts every organ and function of the body, and yet most women do not even think of it as a drug,” says Holly Grigg-Spall’s Pill: Or how we got hooked on hormonal birth control (Zero Books). “Depression, anxiety, paranoia, rage, panic attacks – just a few of the effects of the Pill on half of the over 80 per cent of women who pop these tablets during their lifetimes.”
Journalist Mary Harrington argues that hormonal contraception has affected not just our biology, but also our sexual appetites – ...”... “We have historically taken sex seriously because there’s the potential of creating another human, and once you take that out of the picture, something strange happens to the entire field of sexuality.”
“Global birthrates are declining: women on average had 4.7 children each in 1950; by 2100 this is projected to fall to 1.7…The result is that we are facing the prospect of shrinking, ageing societies in which there will be fewer working-age people for every retired person. This means fewer taxpayers to meet the growing costs of state pensions, healthcare and social care.”
Christians were unanimously against artificial birth control until the 20th century, especially in the early Church. “If we marry, it is only so that we may bring up children,” wrote Justin Martyr in First Apologia around AD 160. Similar sentiments were expressed by Athenagoras, Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria and Lactantius. Hippolytus condemned women who “resorted to drugs for producing sterility” in his Refutation of All Heresies, written in the third century.
Luther and Calvin both condemned sex without procreation in their commentaries on Genesis. Calvin wrote: “When a woman in some way drives away the seed out the womb, through aids, then this is rightly seen as an unforgivable crime.” One of Luther’s criticisms of Catholicism was its encouragement of celibacy through monasticism and therefore its relegation of marriage and procreation in spiritual hierarchies. ... in The Christian Case Against Contraception (Wipf & Stock), pastor Brian Hodge argues that the historic case against birth control associated it with very serious sins: murder, sexual immorality and “rebellious acts of idolatry”.
More - https://www.premierchristianity.com/features/a-bitter-pill-why-christians-are-rethinking-contraception/18078.article