jstarfireb
Ideal_Rock
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I want to give a big to Gypsy, justginger, Aoife, Lula, AGBF, and everyone else here who is standing up for choice. You ladies are helping me see that not all hope is lost!
I believe it's true that most conservatives support birth control and understand that if you want to reduce abortions, expanding access to and education about birth control is the best way. However, our rights are being threatened because the candidates who are potentially in charge of what happens to us are part of a fringe minority who believe birth control equals abortion, that abstinence-only sex "education" works, and that abortion should never be legal. And they have put up as many barriers as possible without actually overturning Roe v. Wade (mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds, waiting periods, parental consent laws, personhood amendment proposals, etc.). Anyone who believes that our right to choice is not in jeopardy is ignoring all the evidence and fooling themselves into complacency, which is exactly how we let rights get taken from us before our eyes.
For what it's worth, most birth control methods work primarily by preventing ovulation rather than preventing a fertilized egg from implanting (not that it matters; neither count as abortion in the medical field).
I believe it's true that most conservatives support birth control and understand that if you want to reduce abortions, expanding access to and education about birth control is the best way. However, our rights are being threatened because the candidates who are potentially in charge of what happens to us are part of a fringe minority who believe birth control equals abortion, that abstinence-only sex "education" works, and that abortion should never be legal. And they have put up as many barriers as possible without actually overturning Roe v. Wade (mandatory transvaginal ultrasounds, waiting periods, parental consent laws, personhood amendment proposals, etc.). Anyone who believes that our right to choice is not in jeopardy is ignoring all the evidence and fooling themselves into complacency, which is exactly how we let rights get taken from us before our eyes.
For what it's worth, most birth control methods work primarily by preventing ovulation rather than preventing a fertilized egg from implanting (not that it matters; neither count as abortion in the medical field).