Let us *not* be doing this dumb shit.

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The Bush administration, not content to deny family-planning assistance to women in other countries, appear to be taking a swing at access to contraception here in the US. For double bonus points, they're doing it in a sneaky, underhanded way, equating contraception with abortion in the Department of Health and Human Services rulebook, rather than trying to ban the pill outright.

Now, I don't have to tell you how fucked up this is, do I? How restricting access to contraception increases the number of abortions, and, quite aside from that, rolls back women's rights as human beings by decades? No, I didn't think so. Normally we don't talk politics here, but kids, I get a little upset when people with lower IQs and less general competence than my humble self tell me I'm just a walking incubator, not a real person, or that only the people built on the penis-having chassis are allowed to have sex without being punished for it. So there we are.

What can we do? Probably not much. I signed a petition addressed to the Secretary of Health and Human Services, but that office is not famous for responding to public pressure. I'll be writing a personal letter later on today to same Secretary, and also to anybody I have the vaguest feeling might represent me in the legislature. I'm telling you lot. I'll also be going back to making a small, but regular donation to Planned Parenthood. I encourage you to take similar steps.

And furthermore, I'm gonna reiterate my #1 rule in this matter: Just Say No to Sex With Pro-Lifers. "Aw, honey, you're against contraception? Well, I guess I won't be screwing you until I feel like having a baby, then. Sorry about that."

Comments

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I understand a lot of what you've said, but I think you are over reaching. First of all, I consider myself pro-life, in so much as I consider that a child, once conceived, has it's own distinct life and soul, and that to end that's development is tantamount to ending the development of a child who happens to already be out of the womb.

I don't think it's reaching at all. Most pro-lifers aren't about intelligent sexual practices. They believe that the life of the pin dot in your uterus out ranks your life the moment it comes into existence. I don't believe that life begins at conception. If you take that cluster of cells and remove it from my body it will cease to exist. That fails the qualifier of life. I don't think it's fair to randomly choose the point of life based on what suits your purpose.

The pro-lifers in this endeavor are merely pushing back the point of life to pre conception. Not for the sake of life, but for the sake of control. They aren't holding life sacred because if they were they would focusing their control on those that are already alive and kicking and needing help and not trying to protect the right of a future human's theoretical existence. These people are trying to control people by controlling one of their basic needs. Intimacy. If you take away someone's right to produce on their own terms and the right to engage in sexual activity, you break down their need to fight against you.

We should be actively fighting against them right down to refusing to mate with them when they take their convictions to the point of refusing to putting on a condom.