Why do christians hate planned parenthood

But the Anglicans were the first church to issue a statement in favour of contraception, which they did at the Lambeth Conference in by a majority of to A group of American Protestants followed in The history of modern Roman Catholic thinking on the subject is dealt with in the Roman Catholic pages. The first of these examples is normally rebutted by demonstrating that contraception has not prevented human beings from being fruitful and multiplying.

However, there are a number of passages where the Bible appears to accept that sex should be enjoyed for other reasons than the production of children, and some people argue that this implies that no wrong is done if a couple have sex with the intention of not having children. By the Lambeth Conference had changed its mind and declared that if there was an ethically acceptable reason not to have children and to continue to have sex then:.

By the Anglicans had concluded that God wanted the responsibility for deciding upon the number and frequency of children to be something for the consciences of the potential parents, and that they could manage their family and fertility "in such ways as are acceptable to husband and wife".

The Church forbids sex outside marriage, so its teachings about birth control should be understood in the context of husband and wife. The Roman Catholic Church believes that using contraception is "intrinsically evil" in itself, regardless of the consequences.

Catholics are only permitted to use natural methods of birth control. But the Church does not condemn things like the pill or condoms in themselves.

What is morally wrong is using such things with the intention of preventing conception. Using them for other purposes is fine - for example, using the pill to regulate the periods of a woman who is not in a sexual relationship is not wrong.

This is one of the most controversial areas of the Church's moral teachings; partly because birth control is now accepted in most of the West, but also because the philosophical and theological ideas behind the ban are hard to understand.

As a result, many Roman Catholics see the ban as arbitrary and unreasonable, but in fact the ban is based on a thorough analysis of the issues involved. Catholic objections to artificial contraception are partly based on 'natural law' and partly on the bad consequences that will result if contraception is widely used.

But Catholic policy on birth control is also derived from the way the Church views the nature of marital sexuality and responsible parenthood. The Church teaches that the physical expression of love between husband and wife in sexual intercourse can't be separated from the reproductive implications of both the act and marriage. Sex is seen as intimately involved in God's design for the universe, and as something profoundly important that involves a person's mind and spirit as well as their body.

The Catholic Church does not see any point in putting forward the various arguments that show the benefits of contraception to individuals or to the world. Pope Paul VI put it like this: "It is never lawful, even for the gravest reasons, to do evil that good may come of it. A study suggests that most practising Catholics are ignoring the Church's teachings on contraception and sex. The contraceptive pill is used by In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed.

Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions. This document said that artificial birth control was a violation of the "law of God and nature" and that those who used it committed "a deed which is shameful and intrinsically vicious. In Pope Pius XII said that it was acceptable to use the rhythm method if a couple had a good reason to limit the size of their family. In Pius XII stated that it was legitimate for women to take the birth control pill for medical reasons other than contraception.

He said that the contraceptive side effect would not be wrong because of the doctrine of double effect. His uncompromising position on birth control led to protests around the Catholic world and Roman Catholic hierarchies in some countries openly modified the policy.

The document surprised many Catholics, who had hoped for a relaxation of the traditional attitude after Vatican II, and it rejected the views of the commission appointed to consider birth control, which had recommended that the ban on contraception be ended. Pope John Paul II thought birth control was profoundly important; while still Cardinal Wojtyla he wrote that the issue of contraception was a "struggle for the value and meaning of humanity itself" Earlier this week , ahead of two giant confabs of evangelicals in Nashville, Joe Carter, an editor of The Gospel Coalition, wrote that the next election could have a shaping impact on the future of abortion in America.

Wade will be lost for another two generations. Read More. What do evangelicals think of Trump? A week after a Senate bill failed to block federal funding of Planned Parenthood, Christian and conservative leaders discussed what's next in the fight at the two Nashville conferences held by the Southern Baptist Convention, the largest Protestant body in the United States. Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush called for Planned Parenthood's defunding at one of the conferences.

Green : Did you engage in any activism around this issue? Kast: The first protest I ever went to was when I was It was an anti-abortion protest. We lined the streets in my small Michigan town, with signs—something along the lines of save the unborn babies. It was a silent protest. Green : When would you say you first started questioning the values you had been taught around abortion? Kast : It began with other issues, which led to abortion. I was in college, a private Christian school in Michigan.

At that time, President [George W. That all went together. And I began questioning it. Green : How did that connect with the question of abortion? Kast : I began to understand myself as a woman in ministry. I began to see myself as this Christian feminist. I began to own my voice differently, and to question the rules of engagement of Christianity that I was raised with. But why? Why is this the only issue? Like many Millennials coming out of evangelicalism, I began to care about different justice issues.

I began to care about the Earth, and racial justice, and interfaith justice. And one of the topics that arose for me was abortion. I began questioning: What about bodily autonomy? How would God ever infringe upon that? Tom Strode - Baptist Press April 13, Some pro-life advocates view Planned Parenthood employees as killers complicit in crimes. Abby Johnson sees them as people worth rescuing.

Interview by Andrea Palpant Dilley January 24, From Her. What we say about abortion matters, even if we act peacefully. Karen Swallow Prior December 1, Jeremy Weber and Bob Smietana November 28,