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Margaret Sanger didn’t worship God. She worshipped instead at the First Church of Birth Control. She was its founding pastor; she was its first and best evangelist. But more than 100 years after the publication of her book, The Pivot of Civilization, birth control has not delivered the utopia Sanger promised. Nor has it eliminated abortion, which is something else Sanger assured us it would do.

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After conversion, is a Christian's job merely to make more converts? Or does God expect something more from those who bear his name? And what would he have us do about the widespread embrace of abortion?

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This discussion leans on the insights of Doug Wilson and C.S. Lewis to call for Christian engagement that is not bitter or cynical—but joyful.

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A look at Gandhi's collective teaching on artificial birth control, including a visit he received from Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger.

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Some of the most notable recipients of the most notable prize for peace have eloquently affirmed the sanctity of human life, the unparalleled value of children, and the importance of protecting the vulnerable. Only one recipient explicitly connected those virtues to the opposition of abortion, but they all could have. And should have.

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Martin Luther King Jr. was killed before abortion was legalized in the United States, but he had plenty to say about the death of innocent children—and the culpability of a society that passively accepts those deaths in silence.

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It's by no means certain that abortion could have been legalized in America without Bernard Nathanson. Known at the time as the abortion king, Dr. Nathanson cofounded NARAL and performed tens of thousands of abortions in NYC prior to Roe. Then he became one of abortion's biggest opponents. His first book explained why he changed his mind. His second book—The Hand of God—explains how he came to faith in Christ.

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Bernard Nathanson was the only doctor among the founders of NARAL and ran the largest abortion clinic in New York City during the early 1970's—which performed abortions almost around the clock on a scale never before seen anywhere else in the world. Then he switched sides and wrote a book to explain why.

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