One evangelical beliefs is the sanctity of life. This is the idea that every human life is inherently valuable. It expresses itself in a pro-life and anti-contraceptive attitude. Another is the Puritan work ethic. This is the idea that a person's value is directly tied to the amount of hard work they engage in. It expresses itself in an anti-welfare attitude. These two beliefs, however, are contradictory. If every human life is inherently valuable, then the amount of hard work they engage in is irrelevant and everyone's basic needs should be ensured. If a person's value is directly tied to the amount of hard work they engage in, then there is no sanctity of life and the abortion of fetuses (who have never worked before) would have complete support amongst evangelicals. All in all, it's clear that the prescence of both beliefs within the evangelical mindset exists only to justify control over individuals, those individuals being workers as well as women. However, they can't have it both ways and the contradiction emerges when they try to