Conservative religious Leaders and their culture of death

Please welcome Rachel and Karen from the Coalition for a Democratic America~Dusty
By Rachel and Karen

Edited by BibleBelted and Donatra

In his wonderful article, “Pro-Death Conservatives Are Responsible for High Abortion Rates,” George Monbiot openly places the blame for high abortion rates on the Catholic Church as well as other conservative religions which ban contraception and which seek to reduce women to the positions of second class citizens.

According to Monbiot as societies modernize their medical practices, as they gain a better grasp on medical technology, there is a brief period when both, abortion and the use of contraception rise together. But a study in Family Planing Perspectives reveals that once birth rates stabilize, the use of contraception will continue to increase while the abortion rate falls. In other words there is a direct relationship between the use of contraception and falling abortion rates. Once 80 percent of the population is using contraception the incidents of abortion drop off dramatically. As the modernizing society advances medically the need for abortion steadily decreases with the increase in contraception; and yet for some bizzare reason or reasons, the male leaders of conservative religion–most notably those in the Catholic Church–cling tightly to their preconceived fantasies about contraception, insisting that both contraception and abortion a culture of death, when in fact it is male-dominated conservative religion which is producing a culture of death.

As proof Mister Monbiot offers the following evidence:

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