I'm sorry, but if this is from Orthodox Ethos I can not take a grain of it seriously whatsoever. A priest who openly encouraged other priest to be disobedient to their bishops is not only that I would recommend to listen to on any other topic.
Orthodoxy is against abortion. Other birth control methods, like the Pill, are de facto purely pastoral matters between a married couple and their confessor. It is not our business.
I have to generally disagree, EC.
While obedience to bishops IS the general rule, there IS Orthodox precedent for disobedience to bishops - when bishops teach against the consensus of our Tradition. I have seen hierarchs and bishops in both the Greek and Russian Churches say and do despicable things that tempt me to toss faith altogether. But I have not, generally seen, open calls to disobey bishops. The priests in my former town have been punished, by the hierarchy, simply for saying that the violence of brother against brother is a bad thing. But none called for any disobedience to the hierarchs.
Having finally watched the video (I am in survival mode as a refugee, and working the equivalent of two full-time jobs just to make ends meet), I have to say that Heers is pretty solid. I thought maybe you meant that he was calling for disobedience to bishops, and found nothing of the sort in the video.
Heers lays out the unpopular ideal, and then repeatedly stresses that it cannot be imposed by others, but must be desired by the person who wants to grow closer to God, and that most can only domthis gradually, through struggle, and even, without condescension, sacrificing that asceticism in love for the sake of the weaker person they are yoked to. For we must admit that giving in to our carnal desires, as such, is weakness, and not spiritual strength. But he makes it clear that we do what we can, and doesn’t impose an external demand for absolute monastic chastity.
So while questions around that struggle are indeed pastoral, some things are not, and speaking as a general rule (excluding the use of a preparation like the pill for actual medical relief of actual suffering), the pill is not something that a pastor should grant pastorally, because it works so strongly against our Tradition, in which the effort to “control birth” - which nearly always means preventing it - is seen as playing God, deciding who will be born, and when. The consensus of the fathers is pretty clear that all blessed sexual union should be open to procreation, and “birth control” is aimed at closing out that procreation. Too many Orthodox pastors now lack the basic discernment to see that, and as Fr Matt pointed out, the result is massive, widespread abuse of economia, leading people to believe that what ought to be an extreme exception is the norm of Church teaching when in fact it is not. And so we fall further and further away from the Christian ideal.