A few years back, Pastor John Piper was asked this important question. Should married couples

consider using birth control pills? Why or why not? Some claim it is still in essence

abortive. Here's what Pastor John had to say.

Well, we did use contraceptives in the early part of our marriage and my wife's father

was a doctor and we consulted with him about this because the answer is fairly simple

to me at one level. If it's in a board of patient, if the egg is being fertilized and then

being destroyed, it's not right. Because I think, I mean, there's just so much we could

say here about the beginnings of life and how you understand the soul and try to keep

it short and simple, I think a child should be given the benefit of the doubt as to whether

he exists or not. And when a child, an egg has been fertilized and all the components

there are now physically for a human being, we have every reason to treat it as a human

being. And so we shouldn't destroy it. And if the pill destroys it, we shouldn't use

that pill. Now, here's where the differences come, I think, because I have had people

say to me, you can't be sure, or the pills all work that way, or no, they don't. And so

I would just say to the families, operate on this principle, namely that I'm not going

to destroy a fertilized egg. And then do your best by whatever research and consultation

you can to decide what means of conception control, I'm going to avoid birth control,

that's quite say, right? Conception control you should use. Now, that's at one level,

okay, that's the abortion level. There's another whole level to this issue of people saying,

well, if children are a blessing from the Lord, why would you get in the way, right?

You have as many as you can, 15, 20. It's be like, you know, Susanna Wesley and her parents.

And there, it's another question, but I can try to give my short answer. I do think children

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