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The new target: Birth Control

Travis

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So, there's this thing called The World Congress of Families going on.

The World Congress of Families is a project of the Illinois-based Howard Center for Family, Religion and Society, founded in 1997 by conservative historian Allan Carlson. The Howard Center has a relatively small budget — less than half a million dollars in 2013 — but works with organizers and funders in host countries to throw what it calls the “Olympics” of social conservatism.
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A big part of their agenda is promoting what they call "The Natural Family" which, among other things, means stamping out homosexuality and women wanting to do anything but be baby factories.

In Carlson’s and Mero’s “natural family” dream, they “envision young women growing into wives, homemakers, and mothers; and we see young men growing into husbands, homebuilders, and fathers.” For women, this involves rejecting what they call the “contraceptive mentality” and opening their homes to “a full quiver of children” — a nod to the “Quiverfull” ideology promoted by the self-proclaimed “Christian patriarchy” movement.
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And part of this brave new world of theirs is getting rid of legal birth control.

The makers of a film that argues we need to make contraception of all types illegal will be attending the congress. These are people who actually advance arguments that birth control is legal so that more women get pregnant and therefore need more abortions. Which is the kind of weirdly paradoxical logic that seems more like a plan Cobra Commander would come up with when high on mescaline. Why someone wants more abortions is sorta left to the imagination. The fact that abortions rates are actually inversely correlated with birth control availability is just conveniently ignored.

So, anyways, this is now the new thing. They aren't content to just make abortion hard as heck to get now they want to take away birth control too.
 
This is utterly unsurprising. The anti-abortion crowd have been associated with this for decades (certainly back to the "condoms don't prevent HIV" lies) as part of their attempt to control women.
 
It certainly does expose their claims to be only concerned for the babies as a lie.
 
Travis said:
Which is the kind of weirdly paradoxical logic that seems more like a plan Cobra Commander would come up with when high on mescaline. Why someone wants more abortions is sorta left to the imagination.
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Money. Not a lot of imagination needed there.
The fact that abortions rates are actually inversely correlated with birth control availability is just conveniently ignored.

So, anyways, this is now the new thing. They aren't content to just make abortion hard as heck to get now they want to take away birth control too.
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Hardly a new thing, it's just been languishing a bit in recent years along with the whole abortion issue itself, as most women now in their childbearing years were born post Roe-v-Wade and definitely post Griswold-v-Connecticut and the wide availability of the pill.
 
A lot of religions are against birth control.
The Catholic Church for instance, but I'm sure you can find this in protestant versions, the islam and Judaism as well.
Nothing more scary then a woman that might actually be able to devote time to things other than being pregnant and raising children.
 
Sex is bad, mmmkay? The only possible excuse for dirty, sinful sex is making babies, and if you are using birth control it proves you're doing it for the wrong reasons.

The ultra-religious hate this life and everything good in it, and won't be happy until everyone else is as miserable as they are.
 
Well if Roe is a steep hill to climb, Griswold will be Everest. I doubt if you would find serious support for banning birth control among the GOP; I suspect a large majority of Catholics in the US would oppose any ban.
 
Lukraak_Sisser said:
A lot of religions are against birth control.
The Catholic Church for instance, but I'm sure you can find this in protestant versions, the islam and Judaism as well.
Nothing more scary then a woman that might actually be able to devote time to things other than being pregnant and raising children.
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Religion, shmeligion.

If men could have babies then all religions would look a lot different than they do now. There would be abortion clinics on every corner with drive-thrus and contraception would be free.
 
steve s said:
But they don't go around trying to outlaw it. They just try to convince their members to avoid it.

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Not in the US maybe, but they put forward a quite strong lobby to keep birth control unavailable in most strongly catholic countries.
I have no clue about contraception in Islamic theocracies, but I have my suspicions, and I'm sure the same will be found in the strongly orthodox Jewish communities.
 
They try to prevent its use without outlawing it too, see the pharmacists who simply refuse to fill a prescription for birth control----regardless of what the prescription is for.
 
steve s said:
But they don't go around trying to outlaw it. They just try to convince their members to avoid it.

Steve s
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Prior to Griswold v. Connecticut, they most certainly did try to outlaw contraception. And sometimes succeeded -- contraceptions were illegal in Connecticut in part because it was a heavily Catholic state.
 
Mark6 said:
Prior to Griswold v. Connecticut, they most certainly did try to outlaw contraception. And sometimes succeeded -- contraceptions were illegal in Connecticut in part because it was a heavily Catholic state.
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It is amazing how they try to minimize their ridiculous agendas with failures to implement their ridiculous agendas.
 
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