Acceptance of birth control is not the CAUSE of moral breakdown and abortion.
The root cause of evil is the desire for sin in the heart.
If you want to consider contraception to be sin, then it too is the result of moral failure in the heart first.
ALL sin is conceived in the heart before it is borne in the flesh.
Contraception would then be just as much a symptom of moral breakdown as abortion is.
Y'all are blaming the wrong thing.
It's like blaming the existence of alcohol for alcoholism. Or guns for school shootings.
Indeed. Contraception is a manifestation of sin. It’s another way of throwing God out of the Garden and to remake Creation in our own way. On our own terms.
But as Al Mohler of the Southern Baptist Convention points out, different manifestations of sin are accentuated at various points in history. For example: the 20th and 21st Centuries following the invention of The Pill.
You make many good points here about sin starting in the heart. That is certainly true.
However, I did not say that I blame the mere *existence* of, for example, hormonal pills or condoms for sin. A hormonal pill can legitimately be used to treat a disease, like PCOS or endometriosis. I understand a condom can be used diagnostically to get a sperm sample for analysis. It can be used as a water balloon, whee!
The mere *object* is not evil.
Using any object to deliberately sabotage fertility is evil.
Such a sin can be done even without an “object”at all.
Ref. Genesis 38. It’s intentionally impairing what could otherwise have been a fertile sexual encounter. It is akin to withdrawal, or sodomy, both condemned in Sacred Scripture.