Comments on: It’s time to ask the candidates simple questions about birth control http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/06/27/its-time-to-ask-the-candidates-simple-questions-about-birth-control/ Human Animals at the Crossroads of Culture, Science, Religion and Media Mon, 01 Dec 2008 23:35:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Edgar Montrose http://dangerousintersection.org/2008/06/27/its-time-to-ask-the-candidates-simple-questions-about-birth-control/#comment-20263 Edgar Montrose Sun, 29 Jun 2008 11:09:57 +0000 http://dangerousintersection.org/?p=2785#comment-20263 "It’s time to cater to 89% of sexually active women, thereby recognizing the right of women to control their own bodies and simultaneously decreasing the number of abortions." Your argument makes perfect logical sense, but it fails to address the true goal of those who seek both to eliminate contraception and to eliminate abortion: they want women to stop having sex. The very idea that "sexually active women" exist is abhorrent to them. (Interestingly enough, they don't seem to want men to stop having sex. How that's going to work I don't know, unless ... no, they're against that, too.) “It’s time to cater to 89% of sexually active women, thereby recognizing the right of women to control their own bodies and simultaneously decreasing the number of abortions.”

Your argument makes perfect logical sense, but it fails to address the true goal of those who seek both to eliminate contraception and to eliminate abortion: they want women to stop having sex. The very idea that “sexually active women” exist is abhorrent to them. (Interestingly enough, they don’t seem to want men to stop having sex. How that’s going to work I don’t know, unless … no, they’re against that, too.)

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