Evangelicals generally permit the use of birth control, but they object to specific methods such as the morning-after contraceptive pill, which they argue is tantamount to abortion.
More importantly, they say, men should be pushed to take more responsibility for limiting their family - male methods account for only 6% of contraceptive use in India.
The use of modern methods of family planning has increased dramatically from a contraceptive prevalence rate of 13.9 per cent in 2005 to 32 per cent in 2010.