Sentences with phrase «prohibition against contraception»

Several contributors to the symposium state that there is no scriptural basis for the prohibition against contraception.

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In upholding the prohibition against artificial methods of birth control, the encyclical dashed the hopes of many believers for a change in church teaching — hopes that had been raised when the National Catholic Reporter leaked the news that the lay and clerical members of the hand - picked papal commission studying the matter had voted decisively to support the limited use of artificial contraception within the context of marriage.

It is believers that claim the high moral ground and have specific prohibitions against abortion, contraception, premarital sex, adultery, lying, etc..

To hear some people talk, one would get the impression that the prohibition against artificial contraception came out of the blue.