Contraception and Religious Approaches
- Created by: Grace Lidgett
- Created on: 09-04-13 21:58
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- Contraception
- Vast majority of split Christian views
- Most denominations do not accept it outside of marriage
- Issues
- China's lack of choice in forced contraception
- Africa's population crisis and Roman Catholic views not doing anything about it
- Furthermore the spread of AIDS in Africa due to unprotected sex or being born from parents with the disease
- Furthermore the spread of AIDS in Africa due to unprotected sex or being born from parents with the disease
- AIDS contracting and spreading wthin marriage and couples
- **** victim pregnancies
- Unwanted pregnancies with people whom would simply not be able to cope
- Roman catholic teaching goes back to the views of Augustine that marital intercourse was only justified for procreation
- They do however accept natural family planning but seem consistent in rejecting contraception
- As recently as 1997, the Vatican's Pontifical Council for the Family said that contraception was an intrinsic evil
- Protestant churches have steadily changed in their views of contraception and no longer consider it a sin
- Vast majority of split Christian views
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