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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless [View all]LynneSin
(95,337 posts)When there are limited choices for women - then we find that more women end up with unexpected pregnancy and there tends to be a higher number of those that end in abortion.
Abortion is not the best form of birth control, in fact it's probably the absolutely WORST form of birth control. But when you strip away all other options for women where they are given few other choices, it tends to get used as a form of birth control. Personally I think the GOP likes it that way - what better way to 'slut shame' women then to make them go through the humiliation of going to a family planning clinic to be shamed by the protestors and maybe even the nurses & doctors themselves as the woman decides if she wants to terminate their pregnancy. And the only way to ensure the 'slut shaming' is by making sure the women isn't well educated on the many ways to keep her from getting pregnant, make sure that the few forms of birth control available are either too expensive or unreliable and then make sure there are limited clinics to even receive abortions so there is always a big crowd outside there to 'slut shame' the women for her choices.
But with the progressive choices - we empower women, we don't shame them. We make sure they are well educated. We make sure that reliable birth control is affordable and even free. We take the power away from the 'Slut Shamers' and give it back to the women because in the end these women are not sluts and do not deserve this shame. When women have control over their reproductive choices then the GOP and their ilk loses that power.