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To: cpforlife.org
What's wrong with good old fashioned Protestant birth control? I believe it to be a gift from God.
29 posted on 10/04/2003 2:36:33 PM PDT by tkathy (The islamofascists and the democrats are trying to destroy this country)
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To: tkathy
Dear tkathy,

I am Catholic from birth, so you will have to be specific with what "good old fashioned Protestant birth control"
means.

I would also ask you to please read the following:
"While Christians have been calling for an end to the slaughter of the unborn and proclaiming that these little ones have a right to life "from the moment of conception," they themselves have been busy killing off their own children with CHEMICAL abortions.
They have been consumers of abortifacient birth control -- pills and intrauterine devices (IUDs) -- at the same rate as their pagan counterparts.
IUDs have only one method of operation. They prevent implantation of an already conceived child. Birth control pills (every variety) have three methods -- two actually prevent conception, but the final back-up is prevention of implantation.
Bo Kuhar, president of Pharmacists for Life estimates between 8 an 13 million abortions per year in the U.S. alone due to these methods.
And Christian women -- even pro-life activists -- use these methods. Many churches counsel the use of birth control. And while many (including me) believe that all birth control is unbiblical, there can surely be no argument that abortifacient methods of birth control are sin.
But we have all sorts of excuses. One pro-life activist couple I am aware of said they had "prayed about it" and that they (presumptuously) believed God would not allow the pills to ever use the third, abortifacient mechanism.
Others simply refuse to believe what is printed right on the patient information -- that the pill prevents implantation -- and find "Christian" doctors who are willing to continue the deception. Churches support the denial and continue to advise newlyweds to use abortifacient birth control.
Thus, millions of Christian babies are aborted by their Christian parents every year in the U.S.
With all that blood on the church's hands, how could we ever expect God to bless our efforts. We've been so busy trying to remove the splinter in the pagans' eyes that we have neglected the beam in our own."
32 posted on 10/04/2003 3:42:39 PM PDT by cpforlife.org (The Missing Key of the Pro-Life Movement is at www.CpForLife.org)
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To: tkathy
What's wrong with good old fashioned Protestant birth control? I believe it to be a gift from God.

Which god? Moloch? Baal? Bacchus? Surely not the God of Israel.

"Good old Protestant birth control," as you call it, was unanimously and vigorously condemned by all Christians -- Protestant, Catholic, and Orthodox -- until 1930. The laws against birth control in the US, the Comstock laws, were written by Protestants. The Reformers, all of them, condemned artificial contraception as grave immorality.

In 1930, the Anglican Lambeth Conference became the first mainstream Christian body in history to endorse contraception. That decision was condemned, not only by the Pope, but by Mahatma Gandhi (!) and most of the rest of the world. Just a few years ago, Robert Runcie, the former Archbishop of Canterbury, said, in essence, that that decision logically led to approval of homosexual acts. He said that once the acceptance of contraception made it clear that it was okay to completely separate sex from procreation, it necessarily followed that homosexual acts could not be prohibited either.

The Supreme Court has stated quite clearly that their acceptance of contraception in the Griswold case, which struck down the Comstock laws, led directly to Roe v. Wade, because abortion is necessary as a "backstop" if contraception fails.

This article hits the nail right on the head. If American Catholics practiced Catholicism, and American Evangelicals learned the truth that their forebearers knew, that contraception is a sin against God, the pro-life movement would make progress.

39 posted on 10/04/2003 4:42:51 PM PDT by Campion
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