If you see in the above quotations any defense of the unChristian and anti-Scriptural practice known as contraception, then you can see literally anything at all in them.
"The Conference records with alarm the growing practice of the artificial restriction of the family and earnestly calls upon all Christian people to discountenance the use of all artificial means of restriction as demoralising to character and hostile to national welfare."
Are we to take this as an endorsement of contraception?
To call this a condemnation of contraception is a misrepresentation?
Really?
Sounds like he's referring to abortion.
I'll respond to your post with a paraphrase of a comment I just made on Kopp's other thread...
One of the differences between Protestants and Roman Catholics is that Protestants can hold a variety of positions on matters that are not Scripturally-mandated.
Unlike RCs who are given a laundry list of insignificant, capricious do's and don'ts, inevitably missing the forest that is salvation by Christ alone for the trees of good works and presumed piety.
Barrier contraception is not antithetical to Biblical Christianity. Rome just wants more seats in the pews.
Hopefully husbands and wives will have as many children as they can happily raise since children are the greatest joy any human being can know.
And as my mother always told me, we don't decide when to have our children. God decides. They are from Him.