It is time for straight talk about birth control. Most birth control methods, as either their primary or secondary mechanisms of action, induce abortions: they allow conception to occur but, having caused the uterine lining to be inhospitable to implantation, cause the newly conceived child to die. This all happens during what appears to be an ordinary menstrual cycle, but a new person has been created and left to die. Combined hormonal contraceptives (including the pill), progestogen-only methods, hormonal IUDs, and copper IUDs all work in this way.

But there is a more fundamental reason why we can’t be both pro-life and pro-birth control, because to be pro-life is not merely to be against abortion; to be pro-life is to be FOR life, to take seriously and humbly the responsibility given to us by God, who delegated to married couples his own prerogative: the gift of creating more souls to glorify him.

This message is part of The Trad Store’s pro-life series, which seeks to provide straight talk about what it really means to be pro-life.