Letter to the editor: Family planning
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article38337
- Author
- Proudman, Colin (Colin Leslie John), 1934-2021
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 April
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican Journal
- Date
- 2013 April
- Volume
- 139
- Issue
- 4
- Page
- 5
- Notes
- "The PWRDF supplement [Under the Sun] in the Feb. [2013] issue lists a recipe for ending global hunger -- generosity, working together, food banks, partners, government support. The missing item is family planning -- birth control, contraception, all it what you will". "In 1908, the Lambeth Conference ... came out against contraception, declaring it inconsistent with Christian morality. The next conference, held after World War I, modified its stance and language; the conference in the early '30s declared that contraception, used after spiritual and medical advice, was acceptable. This was, to my mind, courageous, but that conference has regrettably not been followed up by action. The Anglican church, with its openness to change and medical and scientific advances, could show other churches, aid organizations and governments that it has the courage today the the Lambeth bishops showed these many years ago".
- Subjects
- Birth control - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Contraception - Developing countries
- Contraception - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Population - Developing countries
- Population - Religious aspects - Anglican Communion
- Under the Sun