Birth control does not equal abortion.
You and I have had this conversation before, wagglebee. These only result in hurt feelings, division and bashing of various religious groups.
Millions of us grew up in a culture (Protestant, evangelical) where sex is only licit within marriage and elective abortion is never an option, while responsible contraception is acceptable. If a pregnancy occurs on birth control, we would never have an abortion.
Contraception does function to space children and to prevent pregnancy. The key is whether or not the couple believe that every child is human from fertilization. This is where we should work to change minds (and laws). I like my line about “If you break the egg of a bird on the Endangered Species list, it won’t matter that the bird was an embryo or couldn’t live outside the egg. You’ve still broken Federal law.)
Barrier methods like the condom and diaphragm, as well as sterilization can never harm a child.
True contraception does not interfere with the implantation or development of an embryo. The corpus luteum, the tissue left behind at the ovary after ovulation, produces hormones in higher numbers than those resulting from oral or injectables.
I have tons of original articles concerning Plan B and daily oral contraceptives that I’ll email to anyone requesting - send me a FReepmail with your email address.
You wrote:
“Millions of us grew up in a culture (Protestant, evangelical) where sex is only licit within marriage and elective abortion is never an option, while responsible contraception is acceptable.”
Yep, culture. Culture of death.
Protestant who excuses anti-Christian activity like birth control please meet Protestants Against Birth Control: http://www.missionariestopreborn.com/birth_control.html
Woefully uninformed & relativistic