Whoa! Just because I "don't understand"... (Reply #21)

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Response to msongs (Reply #13)

Tue Feb 7, 2012, 07:56 PM

Atman (31,464 posts)

21. Whoa! Just because I "don't understand"...

...what's going on in YOUR head, that means I don't understand the larger issue? Really? Get a fucking grip.

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28 replies	Author	Time	Post
Please call it "pregnancy prevention" NOT birth control.... [View all]	msongs	Feb 2012	OP
Good idea	MNBrewer	Feb 2012	#1
I don't ever remember it not being called	hifiguy	Feb 2012	#2
ditto	dipsydoodle	Feb 2012	#5
I prefer "contraception."	silverweb	Feb 2012	#3
Why? It's less accurate.	David__77	Feb 2012	#4
No, it does not terminate pregnancy. It prevents the implantation of a fertilized ovum.	CTyankee	Feb 2012	#14
OK, point taken. But neither should we "sacralize" the implanted embryo.	David__77	Feb 2012	#23
I absolutely agree! but the "moment" of pregnancy is still NOT at fertlization...	CTyankee	Feb 2012	#25
Biology FAIL. Plan B PREVENTS pregnancy by preventing implantation.	kestrel91316	Feb 2012	#19
Why?	Atman	Feb 2012	#6
just because YOU cannot understand the difference does not make you qualified to define my	msongs	Feb 2012	#13
Whoa! Just because I "don't understand"...	Atman	Feb 2012	#21
the pills, i just call "hormones". more descriptive. and besides, they have a variety of uses.	unblock	Feb 2012	#7
A rose by any other name, my dear!	mysuzuki2	Feb 2012	#8
I prefer German straightforwardness, like, die Anti-Baby Pille	stevenleser	Feb 2012	#9
if it pisses of the religious right, I'll call them jagged little liberal abortion funpills	DisgustipatedinCA	Feb 2012	#10
It was always called "family planning" when I worked overseas	lapislzi	Feb 2012	#11
Good luck with that.	Scuba	Feb 2012	#12
I kinda like "abortion prevention" too, altho I doubt that will catch on...	CTyankee	Feb 2012	#15
you mean like "homicide bomber"? no thianks. everyone knows what birth control is	Obama3_16	Feb 2012	#16
lets keep birth control because people understand the term	dembotoz	Feb 2012	#17
I have been calling oral contraceptives the birth control pill for	kestrel91316	Feb 2012	#18
I frame it as "fetus removal"	saras	Feb 2012	#20
it's always been birth control to me.	barbtries	Feb 2012	#22
Phrase 'birth control' dates back to at least 1914	muriel_volestrangler	Feb 2012	#24
I see nothing wrong with the term 'birth control'	LeftishBrit	Feb 2012	#26
This message was self-deleted by its author	Obamanaut	Feb 2012	#27
Granted, it is not right-wing, but the term was originated in 1914.	coffeenap	Feb 2012	#28

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