Daily Dose of Fury

[willowisp]

Any woman who uses birth control (especially those who, like me, need to do so for medical conditions), or anyone who believes his female friends/relatives/SOs have the right to do so, should read this article. Maybe I should demand that they underwrite the hysterectomy I will need if I end up unable to get pills around here.

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Re: Did I miss the topic?

[turnberryknkn.livejournal.com]

Which is what I was trying to get at in my original post --what I saw as the futility and the harm of this particular tactic to try to reduce the number of abortions --a goal I entirely support, even if I think the means are a net harm. A practitioner could ask his patients whether they want to use oral contraceptives for abortificent purposes or other purposes and only perscribe to the latter --but my guess as to why practitioners go for total bans is because they feel --and logically so-- that it would be too easy for patients to simply claim the latter and then use the pills for the former, and thus the only truly guaranteed way to make sure it doesn't happen is to give no pills at all. Except this ends up harming the patients who *do* need the pills for non-contraceptive purposes --and on top of that is ultimately, in my opinion, a losing battle. Technology will allow *over-the-counter* methods of using drugs approved and used for other purposes to be combined appropriately to terminate a pregancy. At which point the whole issue will be moot.

My contention is that in order to reduce the number of abortions, measures that simply make abortions harder to get are ultimately ineffective for a constellation of reasons; the way to save babies is to make changes to society that cause pregnant women to choose for themselves to carry babies to term rather than aborting them. That's what we who oppose abortions I think needed --and need-- to concentrate on, I think. Because our goal is to save babies. And we can't do that effectively by bans and boycotts, and especially when those boycotts can reduce access to virtual inaccessibilty and thus hurt women who don't want to have anything to do with abortion at all.

It's a disorganized ramble of thoughts, I apologize; it's a tough subject, and I appreciate your forbearance and understanding.