You are doing the same thing that some antiabortion conservatives do as mentioned a few comments down oversimplifying and ignoring an entire discussion just because you ' re on the other side of it . No , not all people that are against abortion see pregnancy as a punishment . Some may , many do not . I grew up in a strongly conservative family and church and was taught the logic and the reasons . I ' ve since changed my views but no , trust me , it ' s not viewed as a punishment . It ' s actually a combination of many different ideas . 1 Sex is only to take place within marriage . 2 Comprehensive sex ed is going to teach teens that they should have lots and lots of sex . And oral sex . And anal sex . And all the other kinds of sex that are debatable even within marriage . So we can ' t possibly have that . 3 We have to teach kids to not have sex until marriage ! That ' s all they need ! 4 A baby ' s life begins at conception I have knit you together in your mother ' s womb is an oftcited Bible verse for this , therefore an abortion at any time is literally killing a baby . Doesn ' t matter if it ' s in marriage or not , it ' s killing a baby . 5 Killing babies is horrible ! We really need to stop this , so how do we stop it . We can ' t teach people about contraceptives because they ' ll take that as license and have lots of sex which is wrong so we need to teach abstinence and try to repeal Roe V Wade because obviously if we make it illegal it won ' t happen or at least there will be one more line between me and the baby killing which will make me feel better . So no , I ' ve never heard anyone say in the churches I was in that sex wasn ' t also for pleasure , or that pregnancy was in some way a punishment . The more sane churches see sex as having a certain time and place , and pregnancy as being a naturally occurring result of sex . It ' s not punishment , just result . I hope this helps some people kinda get where the crazy Christians are coming from so we can actually have better discussions with those people . Disclaimer these are not my views . These are the views of my family and some of my friends and the churches I grew up in and the authors I read and the radio programs I listened to .