I get a lot of feedback about my constant comparisons between birth control and abortion on the blog. Most people rightly recognize that they are two different issues. But what many fail (or refuse) to see is that the deeper you press into the heart of one, the more you see the heart behind the other. I don’t believe that every one who uses birth control would also be willing to have an abortion. But I do believe it is quite naive of us to think that both issues fit neatly into two separate (yet arbitrary) boxes labeled “Sin” and “Christian Liberty”. And history makes this point better than I ever could…
If you REALLY want to know what the heart and soul is behind the American Birth Control movement, take a few minutes and watch this striking interview with Margaret Sanger (founder of Planned Parenthood) done by Mike Wallace in 1957 — and then explain to me why birth control and abortion have nothing to do with each other…
‘BH
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June 15, 2008 at 10:22 pm
I think it is wild that Red Book was against birth control.
June 15, 2008 at 11:16 pm
I know dude. It just shows how quickly cultural assumptions can change when they are not buttressed by principled reflections on the Word of God. I think Dr. Whitney said something about it only taking 3 generations for a biblical practice to turn into idolatry (or something like that). Does that sound familiar?
June 16, 2008 at 12:59 am
[...] Brother Hank over at the Lawn Gospel has posted a rather lengthy video of an interview with Margaret Sanger from Mike Wallace in 1957 about why she was a champion for the birth control movement. Check out Hank’s post linking to this video here. [...]
June 16, 2008 at 10:36 am
Whitney was talking about the roast in the pan and chopping the ends off of it. The wife chopped off the ends because “mom did it.” The mom chopped it off because that was what her mom “taught her to do.” The grandma did it because the roast was too big for the pan.
The point was that practice without explanation quickly becomes “just the way it is done.” I believe there is some element of truth in the statement question everything. I realize some people take it too far and become self-proclaimed skeptics (can you really read skeptics magazine ang believe what is written?). However, I have discovered that most people do not know why they believe what they believe.
As a youth pastor, I used to challenge my youth to not only know what they believed but why the believed it. Once they accomplished that, I taught them to articulata and share what they believed with others.
Sorry for the tangent.
July 2, 2008 at 7:07 pm
Being against artificial birth control used to be the norm!
How far we have come.
See our post over at The Black Cordelias - Who Said This About the Evils of Contraception?
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