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calimary

(90,305 posts)
8. That's awfully easy to say - when one is not confronted by pharmacists who claim their religion
Sat Aug 1, 2015, 02:34 PM
Aug 2015

says they don't have to fill your legal birth control prescription,
or when one hasn't been knocked up during rape,
or when one wasn't homeschooled by parents who taught abstinence-only,
or when one wasn't in a school where "sex education class" was all about abstinence-only,
or when bedroom busybody governors and state legislatures didn't continue their assault on women's reproductive rights (and don't stop til they get anti-contraception legislation turned into law,
or when one's only source for birth control is Planned Parenthood (which in many ways is pretty much on the ropes),
or when CON governors and state legislatures refuse to implement the ACA and/or state exchanges,
or when one works at companies like Hobby Lobby that whine about their "sincerely held 'beliefs'" override their female employees needs for contraception in their employer-provided health insurance package,
...and the list goes on.

But yeah, I suppose you could say birth control is "available."

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It's a strange use of a pretty sexist idea... WestCoastLib Aug 2015 #1
I'd put one group into those. Archae Aug 2015 #2
The Christian Right is very much into sexual Repression WestCoastLib Aug 2015 #3
It's not their sex life they want to regulate, it's everyone else's Major Nikon Aug 2015 #28
I think it's more that men don't have babies Hydra Aug 2015 #4
... Major Nikon Aug 2015 #29
I don't believe I said no women were involved Hydra Aug 2015 #33
You said men lead the charge Major Nikon Aug 2015 #34
Huh, then I must have imagined this: Hydra Aug 2015 #35
I didn't say it was only women Major Nikon Aug 2015 #36
No sex means the end of the human race and the woman is cheering Yupster Aug 2015 #22
The point, which missed you I guess, is that you cannot stop abortions. PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #24
Yeah - I missed that if it was the point Yupster Aug 2015 #26
Birth control is available. 840high Aug 2015 #5
That's awfully easy to say - when one is not confronted by pharmacists who claim their religion calimary Aug 2015 #8
A pharmacist denying to fill a prescription 840high Aug 2015 #9
Condoms are around 86% effective in the real world. jeff47 Aug 2015 #14
It isn't rare gollygee Aug 2015 #30
Yeah, birth control is available Yupster Aug 2015 #23
Well then, there shouldn't be a problem, since all sexually active men calimary Aug 2015 #37
Wow - people really are helpless aren't they? Yupster Aug 2015 #39
They don't stop abortions. They can help to prevent pregnancy. PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #10
Anything such as bc or condoms is 840high Aug 2015 #16
Worth using? Sure. Will they stop abortions, hell no. You're the one who brought BC up in context of PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #20
I never said bc stops abortions. BC 840high Aug 2015 #31
In an OP titled "How to truly stop abortions" your first reply was PeaceNikki Aug 2015 #32
Don't try and walk it back now. JTFrog Aug 2015 #41
I'm sure that is the first thing a rapist thinks. n/t AwakeAtLast Aug 2015 #40
Contraceptives can fail. sarge43 Aug 2015 #6
Obamacare The Jungle 1 Aug 2015 #7
Yup, reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies TexasBushwhacker Aug 2015 #21
Not junk, but jewels. Family jewels. raging moderate Aug 2015 #11
Not with Viagra, that's for sure! nt valerief Aug 2015 #12
womb envy.+ ITS OUR DUTY! pansypoo53219 Aug 2015 #13
Love it! lark Aug 2015 #15
Post removed Post removed Aug 2015 #17
Both are responsible in the best-case-scenario sense, perhaps, but higherarkies Aug 2015 #25
Like when she's raped? JTFrog Aug 2015 #42
Our house has said this for years... SoapBox Aug 2015 #18
Or irreversible vasectomies on all males SheilaT Aug 2015 #19
Wait a few years, have them make deposits at 2-3 sperm banks Warpy Aug 2015 #27
My anti-abortion Catholic heretic "choose life" mom, mother of me and many siblings... hunter Aug 2015 #38
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