An Evangelical woman gives her opinion of the rise of Natural Family Planning. What do you think? Sadly, an authenticity about contraception is generally lost among the Evangelical feminists in our circles. Rarely to these outspoken leaders on women’s issues say., “Hey, because women are people too, I believe you ladies deserve to know that to according to the National Cancer Institute, oral contraception increases women’s risk for ovarian cancer, breast cancer, cervical cancer, and liver cancer.” This year the annual March for Life theme is “Every life is a gift.” For Evangelicals, our hearts agree that this message is true, but our flesh acts counter to it. Our society tells us that children are expensive, troublesome, and diminish our own goals and dreams rather than add to them. We ignore the warning signs in the pursuit of independence, cleared acne, and lighter menstruation symptoms. Of course, we would disagree with the sentiments (in public at least) that unexpected life is a gift. But just as the secular organic vegan ironically struggle to let go of their chemical contraception habits, so too do Evangelical couples wrestle with our own ironic, perhaps even a bit hypocritical, birth control additions.
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 21:01:48 +0000
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