Someone gets the reaction we should have to South Dakota. So I'll let them speak.

[demiurgent]

This sounds about right to me.

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[edg.livejournal.com]

Ah, timing: we're reading Lysistrata in class this week.

[darthparadox.livejournal.com]

Patriarchal fuckheads. They really do deserve the Lysistrata treatment.

I can understand how one can think abortions are immoral. I mean, the issue of whether a fetus's life is worth as much as any other human's is not one with a clear-cut answer. It's, in my opinion, the "fuzziest" moral question in today's society. But the hypocrisy of disallowing abortions and simultaneously disallowing contraception is disgusting. She's right - it's not about a "culture of life", it's not about a fetus' right to live. It's about control.

Thanks for linking this, Eric. Reposting.

[not-croaker.livejournal.com]

Y'know.

Isn't that EXACTLY the message conservative Christians have been selling for the last few hundred years?

If you don't want to be pregnant... DON'T HAVE SEX.

Gee. Who'da thunk it?

[5eh.livejournal.com]

Wait, so everyone goes gay???

sweet.

[larksilver.livejournal.com]

She's right. It's not about abortion. It's about control; people who don't really carry the load of a child making the decisions about the people who do carry the load. They probably also "lay down the law" at home about how their children are disciplined, even though they aren't the ones doling it out, but that's another rant.

I have always been puzzled by this. Birth control is not immoral, nor is it a license to go out and sleep with anything that moves. It is about freedom; the freedom for a young woman to finish school before having kids. The freedom to not bring a baby into a household that can't handle another mouth, whether that be a financial issue or an emotional one.

It's been my experience that many times, the same thinking that says that birth control is Bad says that girls shouldn't really receive the benefits of an equal education. "After all, she's just going to go get knocked up and waste it all," right?

grr. grr!

Oh - and I love her idea, but it'll never happen. Too many women out there are trained practically from birth to "keep their man happy" for them to start saying "no" now, en masse. Unfortunately.

[pat-myers.livejournal.com]

But if none of these guys get sex from women, they're just gonna turn to each other, and in a few years, conservative journals will have weekly health alerts about the latest venereal diseases going around the community.

Because remember, they don't believe in contraception. (Unless they're hypocrites.)