[LizardQueen]

Clearly, that is the best solution. But in case you haven’t noticed, humans are flawed hormonal impulsive creatures who don’t always keep it in their pants.

I’m a realist - humans are going to screw up no matter how hard you hammer home the abstinence message. And I’d rather they screw up using birth control than not using it and ending up ending a pregnancy.

LQ

[MrB]

Thinking along the lines of incentives,

do you think there would be more or less extramarital sex (ie, biblical adultery)

if someone else wasn’t paying for the consequences?

Also, birth control fails, but it sure gives a false sense of security so that there are less disincentives for the behavior which we should be discouraging.

[MountainFlower]

your seeming logic excuses their behavior...our society is full of the 'pass the buck' or 'pass the blame game'. No excuse. Sin is sin. There isn't a "pick the lesser of 2 evils" here.

you want to excuse the contraceptives, but...abortefaceints are murder as well. They kill after conception. and the contraceptives are just another way to get away with inappropriate, sinful behavior. Outside of marriage it is wrong. Point blank. No questions. People want to continue living their sinful livestyle without having to face it, so...birth control and abortion... sacrifice innocence and the innocent on the alter of convenience and self-centeredness.