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[LuckyCharms]

I am reading that the supreme court will be "going after" contraception next. And that's about all I know about this issue.

My questions are probably naive, but they're still questions, so I'll ask them here.

What the fuck is the reasoning here? Is this like an "every sperm is sacred" type of deal here?

They strike down Roe v Wade, and now they want to get rid of contraception? What kind of bullshit is this?

Are they just talking about contraception that WOMEN use (birth control pills, IUDs, diaphragms, implants)? Are the going after condoms and vasectomies as well? If they are not going after condoms and vasectomies, why not? Are they just going after contraception that women use, but contraception that men use is OK?

Please excuse my ignorance here. This stuff all seems so insane to me that I am having trouble wording my questions intelligently, I just don't understand the reasoning behind all of this.

I'm amazed that there are THOUSANDS of factors that the court has apparently not considered in their decision to strike down Roe v Wade.

I look at this thing very simply.

In most circumstances, human beings have naturally occurring hormones that cause them to desire sexual relations with someone else. That someone else may be someone of the same gender, or someone of a different gender than themselves. So by my way of thinking, we are NATURALLY inclined to want to have sex with someone.

Some humans are asexual, and may not necessarily want to have sex with someone else (although I believe that being asexual does not NECESSARILY mean that you NEVER want to have sex). In any case, all of this is not a decision that you make. It's "the way you are". It's all "natural".

So, let's just discuss this with the understanding that your way of being is natural, it's not a decision that you make. If you believe in God, then "it's the way God made you". If you don't believe in God, then it's "the way you are".

Considering the above factors, heterosexual people may want to have sex with someone of a different gender in order to create a baby. Or, they may want to have sex merely because it is a natural and pleasurable thing to do.

If someone wants to have sex for pleasure, then they will want to prevent that sex act from creating another potential life. Because creating another life has millions of implications. Literally millions. Health implications. Financial implications. Social implications. Quality of life implications. Climate implications.

So, some people may wish to prevent a normal and naturally occurring pleasurable act from resulting in the creation of another life because of millions of these implications. Another factor to think about is that the results of these implications mainly affect women. They have to carry the not yet born potential human being in their own bodies. She may or may not want to do that at that particular moment, or she may never want to do that. Or, her body may not be able to safely do that. Or, her genetic factors, the genetic factors of her partner, or their genetic factors combined together...may result in the creation of a potential human that may be born into this world with an agonizing, painful, terrible quality of life.

If people want to avoid these implications, they simply prevent them from occurring in the first place by using contraception. Sometimes, because of the way life naturally is, the beginning of a potential new life is created regardless. In this case, the "start" or "potential start" of this new life may want to be stopped before the millions of implications have an overwhelming effect on the person/people who are involved in this, including the implications affecting the FUTURE human being for maybe 80 years or so.

I know I'll probably get some backlash on my thoughts here because I'm wording this very poorly. I can't get out exactly what I am trying to say. so while I can't boil all of this down into a phrase that will fit on a bumper sticker, I'll try to boil it down to one paragraph. Note that the summary below also includes what I believe they are going to try to do with gay marriage, but that's another long discussion.

A few fuckers wearing black robes are attempting to LEGISLATE who you are. They are legislating who you love. They are legislating who you have sex with, and how and when you have sex with them. They are legislating that you must accept the result of a sex act, when you may not have chosen to have that sex act in the first place. They are trying to force a person (who at this point isn't a person yet, but merely a potential person) how they are going to live their lives for the next 80 years, when they didn't even choose to become a person at all in the first place. A few fuckers in black robes, who were placed in those black robes mainly due to the actions of a mad man, are attempting to force people to be who they are not. They are negating nature. They are playing god.

Someone who does not know you is telling you who you are.