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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
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What do you think about this? Accept the fact that if you have sex you can get pregnant or follow the method I like to called "Stop-having-sex-if-you-can't-deal-with-the-consequences".
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Well, for some women, one of those consequences includes the choice of an abortion.
It's a choice I don't want to have to make for myself, and so I protect myself appropriately.
RB has it: If you don't like abortions, don't have one. If you're male, wear a damn condom. Or better yet, get a vasectomy and quit putting the burden of protection on the female.
I fully support a woman's right to choose, and it saddens me to see our reproductive freedoms in this country being chipped away right and left. The average American has no idea what a hard-fought battle it was to get emergency contraception over the counter, given the current political climate and those in charge of the FDA. We're fighting back, despite our losses, and we're trying to make gains. Congress recently voted to undo the Global Gag Rule--their vote probably won't succeed, given that Bush is likely to veto the bill it's included in, but they're trying.
Do we really want to go back to a time of coathanger and back alley abortions? I think not. Women will always have abortions--they have been having abortions since the beginning of time. It's better that we guarantee their ability to safely have an abortion without risk of infection or death than force them to seek out illegal abortions. The best option, of course, is to educate people about family planning and freely distribute family planning methods in order to prevent women from being forced to make a choice--but that is becoming harder and harder to do in a country that promotes abstinence-only education and where people think that emergency contraception is equivalent to RU-486.