Don't Swallow That Anti-Child Pill

The New York Times Magazine on Sunday examined the "swelling" of advocacy against contraception use in the U.S. in recent years.

"We see a direct connection between the practice of contraception and the practice of abortion," says Judie Brown, president of the American Life League, an organization that has battled abortion for 27 years but, now has a larger mission.

"The mind-set that invites a couple to use contraception is an antichild mind-set," she told me.

"So when a baby is conceived accidentally, the couple already have this negative attitude toward the child. Therefore seeking an abortion is a natural outcome. We oppose all forms of contraception."

A 22 year old woman gets married to her sweetheart. She wants to have a career for a few years before she starts a family with her husband. With Judie bag-o-douche Brown's mindset, this young woman is doomed to a life of constant pregnancies that she most likely is not ready for. Since she should not have an abortion, she is either forced to potentially become pregnant EVERY time she has sex, or she should remain abstinent. How does that work in a marriage? Isn't it a "wifely duty" to have intercourse with your husband?

Not being ready for a child is anti-child? Not being ready for procreation (i.e. abstinence) must mean being anti-procreation. And what good is a woman then...if she is not a breeding vessel, meant to exist solely for the purpose of procreation.

And why is contraception, abortion and everything reproduction always directed at women? Hasn't anyone ever heard of a man not being ready to be a father? This will never be addressed.

Dr. Joseph B. Stanford, who was appointed by President Bush in 2002 to the F.D.A.'s Reproductive Health Drugs Advisory Committee despite (or perhaps because of) his opposition to contraception wrote in 1999, "Sexual union in marriage ought to be a complete giving of each spouse to the other, and when fertility (or potential fertility) is deliberately excluded from that giving I am convinced that something valuable is lost. A husband will sometimes begin to see his wife as an object of sexual pleasure who should always be available for gratification."

Um, this is ludicrous. Women are already viewed as sexual objects, not wanting a child will not make a man view her as an object anymore than he already does/does not. And many husbands of Reich descent already believe that their wives exist for their gratification.

Perhaps the Reich should spend more time in Bible class teaching men how to respect and value women.

Focus on the Family posts a contraceptive warning label on its Web site: "Modern contraceptive inventions have given many an exaggerated sense of safety and prompted more people than ever before to move sexual expression outside the marriage boundary."

Basically: contraception promotes promiscuity because I mean, people can not control themselves. Just like if you give a woman money, she will spend every last dollar of it. She can't control herself, none of her bills will be paid and her children will be left hungry because if you give someone something...they lose all control of themselves.

This also suggests yet again, sexual deviance...i.e. homosexuality. Outside the marriage boundary. Nuff said.

Years ago, contraception was accepted as a way to curb unintended pregnancies. Senator Olympia Snowe of Maine, an abortion rights Republican says "Two decades or more ago, I don't think there was much of a divide on contraception and family planning," she says. "It was one area both sides could agree on as a way to reduce unwanted pregnancies. Now it becomes embroiled in philosophical disputes."

The problem with this country is we have begun to moralize political issues and politicize moral issues.