Contraception Wins, 77 to 23

One last item for tonight. From Christianity Today's website, the results of a poll on the question "Should Christians use the birth control pill?"

• Yes, the Bible doesn't speak against it: 30%
• I've never thought otherwise: 14%
• No, Natural Family Planning is the way to go: 14%
• No, the pill can act as an abortifacient: 11%
• I'm not sure: 9%
• No, fertility is a blessing to be embraced: 9%
• Yes, if they plan on having children eventually: 5%
• It's better not to; it has bad side effects: 5%
• Yes, for health reasons: 4%

I was slightly surprised and cheered to find that 23% said no to contraception. (The 5% who say no because the pill has side effects and the 11% who recognize its abortifacent effects oppose one method but apparently not contraception in principle.) I would have thought that the percentage would be much lower.

Readers interested in the subject may find helpful: W. Bradford Wilcox's The Facts of Life and Marriage; Juli Loesch Wiley's The Delightful Secrets of Sex; Clare Barshied's Novel Bioethics; Patrick Henry Reardon's The Roots of Roe v. Wade; J. Budziszewski's Designed for Sex; and my Choosing Love and Making Life.