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Interesting. I’m in a conservative Presbyterian church and I’ve never heard contraception discussed.
God’s will is not restrained by contraception.
Sanger felt that in order for women to have more “equal footing” in society and to have physically and mentally healthy lives, they needed to be able to decide when a pregnancy would be most convenient for themselves.[4] In addition, access to birth control would also fulfill a critical psychological need by allowing women to be able to fully enjoy sexual relations, without being burdened by the fear of pregnancy.[5] --Link.Without being "burdened by the fear of pregnancy." Where have we heard those similar words in regard to the legality of abortion? Barack Hussein Obama says he doesn't want his daughters "punished with a baby." And if women are living "physically and mentally healthy lives," using birth control, why is the divorce rate at 50% on a whole for our country, when those using Natural Family Planning have a divorce rate of around 1-3%? It should also be noted that the birth control pill kills babies, women, and the environment. The Pill Kills. The best information to consider regarding birth control can be obtained through the reading of the encyclical Humanae Vitae.
I know exactly what he's saying, that's why I no longer buckle my seat belt, look both ways before crossing the road, or researching an investment before putting all of my money into a deal.
I studied medical ethics under the Reformed prol-life scholar, H.O.J. Brown (founder of the largest association of crises pregnancy clinics). In it we focused on the Christian adoptation of the Hypocratic Oath as a natural-law basis of medical ethics...as it has been used throughout Christian history, from the early Middle Ages until now.
The fundamental Hypocratic principle of “do no harm” applies, I believe to natural, life-giving processes too, which especially include reproduction and childbirth. Therefore to “do no harm” to the natural, normal, healthy processes of the human body is, logically, not to prevent them....as in contraception of any kind.
Another principle, this one straight from scripture...not through general revelation (or natural law), is that the children of godly people are ALWAYS seen as a blessing, never a burden. While it is true in pre-modern cultures, as in bible times, children were the primary pension system...still it is significant that children to God’s people are never seen to be “inconvenient” or “too many.” (Children of people who are NOT godly, well, that’s a different question.)
It’s also true (and a look at family trees will confirm this) that a normal woman will usually only have 5 or 6 kids...without using birth control, not the imagined 15 or 20....which numbers are, and always have been, exceptional.
I believe the Roman Church is right on this....and other Christians have been way too glib and shallow on this point.
I can also say this...there would be no Social Security crises, nor a demand for illegal alien labor...had America had the children they denied themselves for “convenience” sake due to contraception.