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840high

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31. I never said bc stops abortions. BC

Reply to PeaceNikki (Reply #20)

Sat Aug 1, 2015, 07:40 PM

Aug 2015

might reduce abortions.

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How to truly stop abortions... [View all] Archae Aug 2015 OP

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