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In reply to the discussion: Please call it "pregnancy prevention" NOT birth control.... [View all]saras
(6,670 posts)If someone wants to have a whole bunch of intense emotions around the issue, that is THEIR CHOICE, and THEIR CHOICE ALONE.
The reason Europe is so much more sensible about it is NOT that they are passionately committed to a different approach, its that they acknowledge that passion leads to stupid politics.
The sane healthy world I'm aiming at treats it as a minor medical procedure, the private business of a woman and her doctor(s). No more. I want to see "abortion fanatics" in the same bucket as "birthers", "new Earthers", and "flat Earthers".
I am NOT, EVER going to give anyone the political message that THEIR emotions around abortion are ANY grounds for ME, or ANYONE ELSE I KNOW, to change their behavior in any way, any more than your friendly neighborhood plaster casting foot fetishist is going to convert everyone in the neighborhood, gay, straight, or other, into plaster casting foot fetishists.
It's the same position I've always held since I first learned about birth control, it was fairly mainstream when I developed it, and America has moved FAR to the right during my lifetime.