What are your opinions on the Pro-Life agenda against contraceptives?!
Question: I think it's... not very well thought out, to say the least. Any reasonable person can see that an increase in the usage contraceptives would significantly decrease abortion. I consider myself to be pro-life, in the sense that I belief abortion is, in essence, wrong and should one day be made illegal. But I think that day can only come when we change our attitudes about things like contraception, improve our sex-ed programs in schools (that is, make them NOT abstinence-only), and, as Americans in general, have healthier, more open attitudes towards sex. The only way we can REASONABLY expect to see the number of abortions go down is to provide people with the resources to prevent pregnancy.
Answers: I think it's... not very well thought out, to say the least. Any reasonable person can see that an increase in the usage contraceptives would significantly decrease abortion. I consider myself to be pro-life, in the sense that I belief abortion is, in essence, wrong and should one day be made illegal. But I think that day can only come when we change our attitudes about things like contraception, improve our sex-ed programs in schools (that is, make them NOT abstinence-only), and, as Americans in general, have healthier, more open attitudes towards sex. The only way we can REASONABLY expect to see the number of abortions go down is to provide people with the resources to prevent pregnancy.
Beyond idiotic
The same agenda preaches against condom use in Sub-Saharan Africa, where over 3 mil die a year from HIV.
When I want to live under a theocratic police state, I'll move to one of the countries that has one already. In the mean time, they should live their lives as they want, and stay out of mine.
(obscenity omitted. lots of it.)
I think that unless these people are personally going to finance the woman through pregnancy, help her raise the child financially or find parents for all the newborns that are decent people, the Pro-Lifers should worry about the children that are alive NOW without homes and allow women to take care of their personal affairs without governmental interference.
They scare me. They don't seem to understand the possibly severe consequences of limiting availability of contraceptives. People won't stop having sex...it's a natural drive...they'll just have more unprotected sex. (I'm not saying that people SHOULD do that...I'm just being realistic about it!) Cutting contraceptive availability will NOT decrease premarital sex, teen pregnancies, or STD's. The result will be quite the opposite. And these are the same people who don't want social services to be available for women who have unwanted pregnancies!
It's just another example of the man trying to control a minority...
I think the people who have religious or moral objections to contraception are entitled not to use it.
I believe that as a group, they should consider it their religious or moral obligation to take in *every* unwanted child, too, so that no orphans linger in foster care. If life is sacred and begins at conception, then they own support to all the kids who do not have parents who want them.
I think they have no business telling me what I can do with my own body, though. That's laughable--and frightening.
Crazy.