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Wrong. Contraception is immoral and has lead directly to the devaluing of life. Its outlined as clear as crystal in the article. If you need more evidence see the post on the front page by polycarp.

If a single date could be identified as marking the historical break from the Christian consensus on traditional, natural-law principles of sexual morality — if one desired to highlight the West's very first official step down the slippery slope — then August 15,1930 must be chosen as that unhappy date. That was the day when the Lambeth Conference of the Church of England, by a vote of 193 to 67, approved a resolution which read in part:

Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, the method must be decided on Christian principles. The primary and obvious method is complete abstinence from intercourse (as far as may be necessary) in a life of discipleship and self-control lived in the power of the Holy Spirit. Nevertheless, in those cases where there is such a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, and where there is a morally sound reason for avoiding complete abstinence, the Conference agrees that other methods may be used provided that this is done in the light of the same Christian principles. The Conference records its strong condemnation of the use of any methods of conception-control for motives of selfishness, luxury, or mere convenience." [emphasis added] With that vote, the traditional moral unity of Christendom on this issue was broken.

The USA is a nation designed for sane, rational people who want to live happily in this world. A satisfying sex life with one's husband or wife is necessary for that happiness. When the sole purpose of sex is procreation, love and intimacy, because they tend to culminate in sex for its own sake, become problematic, as does the happiness which results from that love and intimacy. This is not a good thing, and as it detracts from individual happiness, is morally wrong. Contraception changes that. A religious argument which posits that taking the pill is the first step on a slippery slope to abortion as contraception requires faith to convince, that is, belief in the absence of sufficient evidence, and only persuades those who belong to the particular religious sect which espouses it.

Contraception is immoral and has lead directly to the devaluing of life.

This kind of blanket statement has no merit unless you qualify "value". How was live valued before contraceptives were widely available. How is it valued no in areas of the world where contraceptives are not readily available or used?

From what I have seen of the world firsthand (traveling in over 50 countries, many among the poorest in the world) human life is not valued very highly relative to how we value life in the West. Women and children's lives are particularly "devalued" using Western standards of valueing life.

So your use of the word "value" has no value itself unless or until you qualify it with objective standards. Which "value of human life" exactly are/were you talking about vis a vis cultures which didn't/don't embrace contraceptives?

___Are you talking about selling daughters into prostitution to feed sons? ___Are you talking about children at 5 turned out to scavenge for food in landfills and refuse heaps? ___Are you talking about refusing women even rudimentary medical care, even in childbirth? ___Are you talking about the diseased and crippled left to drag themselves along on the ground and beg for food and being kicked like dogs? ___Are you talking about women and children at Crisis Hunger stations in Africa being beaten away from food distribution points by men clubs while they cart the food off to sell for weapons? ___Are you talking about female infanticide and female baby abandonment? ___ Are you talking about to practice of giving female children less food and medical attention than male children? ___Are you talking about 1 in 5 babies expected to make it to age 5 in some parts of the world, most dying from simple dehydration?