Dear Mr. Smith, Thank you for your thoughtful note. We do not agree that contraception is the “root cause of abortion.” Tens of millions of Christians, many of them Catholic, practice some form of contraception but are profoundly opposed to abortion. I can find no scriptural support for the proposition that natural family planning, for instance, is sin — and I see no evidence that a disinclination to create life necessarily leads to an inclination to destroy it. I know that the supposed connection between contraception and abortion has become an article of faith in some circles but I see…
