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The United Methodist Church, holds that "each couple has the right and the duty prayerfully and responsibly to control conception according to their circumstances."Its Resolution on Responsible Parenthood states that in order to "support the sacred dimensions of personhood, all possible efforts should be made by parents and the community to ensure that each child enters the world with a ...
Still, all major early Protestant Reformers, and indeed Protestants in general until the twentieth century, condemned birth control as a contravention of God's procreative purpose for marriage. [ 51 ] [ 52 ] As scientists advanced birth control methods during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, some Protestants continued to reject them ...
In 1930, the Lambeth Conference issued a statement permitting birth control: "Where there is a clearly felt moral obligation to limit or avoid parenthood, complete abstinence is the primary and obvious method", but if there was morally sound reasoning for avoiding abstinence, "the Conference agrees that other methods may be used, provided that this is done in the light of Christian principles".
The General Board of the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. opposes abortion "as a means of avoiding responsibility for conception, as a primary means of birth control, and without regard for the far-reaching consequences of the act." There is no agreement on when personhood begins, whether there are situations that allow for abortion ...
Egg donation/Surrogacy: Surrogacy and egg donation are permissible and the birth mother, rather than the genetic mother, is considered the mother of the child, therefore conversion may be necessary if a non-Jewish woman acts as a gestational surrogate. A maximum of 3 embryos may be implanted at a time. Freezing and donation of embryos is permitted.
Protestant Reformers such as Martin Luther and John Calvin were opposed to unnatural birth control. [11] Centuries later, John Wesley, the leader of the Methodist movement said that unnatural birth control could destroy one's soul. [11] If the Manichaeans had an accurate idea of the fertile portion of the menstrual cycle, such knowledge died ...
Premarital sex, adultery, homosexual relations, masturbation, and the use of birth control were all proscribed by the Christian churches". [97] Rainer Brandes notes, "For a long time Protestant theology has placed sexuality exclusively at the service of reproduction."
Many Protestant churches in Northern and Western Europe and some Protestant churches in Northern America and in Australia/New Zealand see masturbation as not a sin. According to Björn Krondorfer, "Auto-erotic sex became conceivable as a distinct entity among sexual sins only when the autonomous self emerged."