When Did Contraception Begin—A Look at Chapter 11 of Be Fruitful & Multiply

“It is hard to believe that we, the people of God who confess that we believe in His truth, have embraced a deceptive philosophy that was born in sin and seduction.”

Campbell gets right to the point at the start of this chapter! I have often wondered the same thing, although I did not know how contraception got its start. I knew that Margaret Sanger pushed for it, but that was all. I was surprised that the reason she pushed for hormonal birth control was because she longed to “create a race of thoroughbreds.” While she liked the idea that it allowed for sexual promiscuity, her goal was to purify the Aryan race and even called the poor, Jews, and African Americans “human weeds.”

Since the idea of contraception took root, three words are usually always used together—“contraception, sterilization, and abortion.” The purpose of all three of these is to eliminate children. What are children? They are warriors in God’s army. If they can defeat the warriors before they are even born, they are on their way to defeating Christianity.

For many years, the church still held onto the belief that contraception was wrong. However, in 1930, the Anglican church “endorsed “the careful and restrained use of contraceptives by married people,” at the same time admitting that “serious evils, such as extramarital sex relations, may be increased by general knowledge of contraceptives.’”

I remember growing up that the Catholic Church still held to the belief that contraception was wrong as well, but that has also changed. I know many “devout” Catholics who openly use birth control and plan on only having x amount of children. Just recently, it has been brought to national spotlight that the liberals are trying to force a Catholic university to provide free birth control for its students. I fear that there are so few people who would stand against this atrocity that it will be passed and then other religious freedoms will be taken away next.

Maybe the key to opening people’s eyes to horror that contraception is begins by making everyone aware of its beginnings. How many minorities and Christians would still use it if they knew that its original goal was to wipe them out?