Um, @ranma-official you know that the whole “anti all contraception” thing is just Catholics. The Protestants are mostly against forms of contraception that act on fertilized eggs as opposed to preventing egg and sperm from encountering each other, and against funding unmarried people’s contraception, and often in access to contraception at all for unmarried people in general or minors in particular, because of either belief that it encourages extramarital sex, or that it permits unpunished extramarital sex. Married couples using condoms to prevent conception is aok by almost every Protestant I’ve ever encountered.I’m really tired of this doubter-centric pro-abortion stuff.
Basically, they say that we can’t ever end abortion so banning it will just lead to unsafe secret abortions and the abandonment of children.
And… No. With the assistance of God who at the end of days shall judge the living and the dead, we will SOLVE ALL THOSE PROBLEMS.
Empirically, Christians do absolutely nothing about unsafe secret abortions except “let’s ban them double extra hard”.
Oh wait, I’m wrong. Since Christians are as strongly against all forms of contraceptives as possible, limited only by a sufficiently secular society, the actual counterpoint is “they make the situation much worse”.
If they are pursuing clumsy policies that do indeed make things worse, they should stop doing that.
Contraceptives are also wrong, but this is a vastly lower priority than abortion, and it seems strange to expect a secular state to ban them.
Like I said, this is severely limited by how secular the society is. Sex ed is a very important tool to eliminate teenage pregnancies, but Protestants seemed to oppose it very strongly and on similar grounds.