[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

In the 1940s, mainline churches and synagogues played a crucial role in popularizing family planning, said the Rev. Tom Davis, chair of the clergy advisory board for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

There's a big difference between "family planning" using contraception and "family planning" using abortion. I can't believe this man of the cloth is trying to justify what they do using this argument. He virtually admitted and described the slippery slope of what has happened in this country re: the sanctity of life.

[AppyPappy]

The "pastor" is a woman. Now I know what the early Church didn't ordain women.

[Alas]

In the 1940s, mainline churches and synagogues played a crucial role in popularizing family planning, said the Rev. Tom Davis, chair of the clergy advisory board for Planned Parenthood Federation of America.

This is one of those statments that begs for the question: "What are your sources on such an outrages statement?"

[gjbevil]

I have to disagree with your statement that there is a big difference between birth control and aboriton. In the encyclical Humanae Vitae, Pope Paul warned that the wide acceptance of birth control would lead to abortion and sexual immorality in society as a whole. Secular society scoffed at the time (1968). But look now. He was right.

[ravingnutter]

There was a recent story in our local paper about preachers and priests working with our local PP here in San Antonio...I was outraged as were many others, which was apparent when the next week's editorials came out. How anyone that believes in God could condone such acts is beyond me...my only consolation is that they will have to face the Lord one of these days with those children's blood on their hands.

[wideawake]

Contraception is defying God's law by trying frustrate His plan for mankind.

Abortion is defying God's law by trying frustrate His plan for mankind and murdering another person to boot.

The contraceptive mentality and the abortion mentality are closely linked and both participate in the culture of death.

Up until the Episcopal Conference at Lambeth in 1930 all Christian bodies opposed the life-denying practice of contraception on the grounds of God's natural law and Holy Scripture. By 1980 all Christian bodies except the Roman Catholic Church had accepted contraception and many had accepted abortion and homosexuality as well.

In 50 years, just two generations, 1,930 years of Christian moral teaching had been almost entirely undone.

The contraception movement and the abortion movement were both begun by the same people with the same antiChristian purpose in mind. History shows that when people are deceived into accepting contraception, their descendants are deceived into accepting abortion.

Contraception divorces the pleasure of sex from the responsibility that sex entails. When people begin to regard physical pleasure as an end in itself, they forget that the end of all human activities and faculties is the glory of God. When people begin to believe that their physical pleasure and comfort is more important than God's law, then they will soon be able to commit any crime, any enormity.

[agrace]

Actually the only - ONLY - contraceptive that is not an abortifacient is a condom and related barrier products such as foam and sponge. Every other means of contraception involves prevention of implantation of an already fertilized egg, including the pill, hormonal implants and patches, IUDs, morning after pill, etc, and are technically abortifacients rather than contraceptives.