I really can’t find any moral reason to be against contraception. The only link I’ve noticed between contraception and abortion is that people engaging in the latter very rarely bother with the former.
Well, all of Christianity up till 1930 was against it, based on scripture and Natural Law. That's good enough for me.
By 1960, all of Christianity had caved on contraception, except Catholicism (and to a lesser degree the Orthodox.)
Here it is: the separation of the procreative from the unitive aspect of sex. In the words of the infallible God-breathed Humanae Vitae: “The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.”
You could read the whole document here:
http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/paul_vi/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-vi_enc_25071968_humanae-vitae_en.html
Still can’t find “a moral reason to be against contraception”?
You wrote:
“The only link I’ve noticed between contraception and abortion is that people engaging in the latter very rarely bother with the former.”
False. Overwhelmingly those who have abortions have used contraceptives. They might not have used them consistently, but they used them and quite often. People who embrace the contraceptive mentality invariably come to “tolerate” or embrace abortion.
Except for abortion rates increasing in lockstep with contraception rates, yeah they’ve got nothing to do with each other.
Or the fact that Planned Parenthood is the largest abortion provider in the US.
Here is a link, a good place to start, to many papers in this subject. Why continue to filibuster, get the facts.
http://www.hli.org/index.php/hli-research