Mainline Protestant denominations have since removed prohibitions against artificial contraception.

Other critics maintain that no movement that opposes abortion and birth control in the form of artificial contraception can be positive for women.

The curriculum includes information on artificial contraception.

Catholics are obliged not to use artificial contraception; as opposed to some Protestant points of view whereby one may follow one's own conscience.

We demand of the Pope, for example, that he rescind the papal encyclical banning artificial contraception.

But in so doing he avoided breaching his church's opposition to artificial contraception: birth control not being an issue in male homosexual relations.

The draft, like the two before it, upholds the church's ban on artificial contraception and describes abortion as an "unspeakable crime."

Many Anglican communities allow for artificial contraception, seeing the restriction of family size as possibly not contrary to God's will.