There's long been folks in the pro-Choice movement who've suggested that anti-abortion folks were interested not just in ending abortion, but birth control as well. This has been denied by most mainstream anti-abortion organizations and proponents, but the current "personhood" law movement demonstrates that, at least in the anti-abortion fringe, elimination of most forms of birth control is seen as a feature, not a bug.
The "unintended" consequences of personhood proposals are remarkable — and I use the quotations because, like with birth control, it's unclear how "unintended' some of them are.
I'm pleased as punch that a similar proposal was soundly defeated in Colorado. My condolences to the people of Mississippi, where it looks likely to pass.
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Personhood USA Confirms That Mississippi Abortion Ban Would Outlaw Birth Control Pills
Next Tuesday, Mississippians will go to the polls to decide on Initiative 26, a personhood amendment to the state constitution that defines a person as “every human being from the moment of fertilizat…
Interestingly, even Gov. Haley Barbour (R) thinks the amendment might be too radical – http://thinkprogress.org/health/2011/11/02/359104/gov-barbour-may-vote-against-mississippis-personhood-abortion-ban-it-concerns-me-i-have-to-just-say-it/
Gosh darn it, if we can make them stop having sex for fun, of COURSE they'll get married, settle down, and have lots of babies, and stop pushing for all kinds of things, like rights for gay folks and…wait. Gay folks don't need birth control, per se. Won't this just encourage gay sex? Holy flying pigs! We gotta get this changed!
DeAnna, you are so spot on!
I believe it is said of Southern Baptists that many younger ones get married in order to have sex, and then when there is not enough commonality to keep the marriage going, they divorce, and remarry serially. THEIR vows read “until death do us part”, but I don’t see them upholding “the sanctity of marriage” that is supposed to bar gays from marriage–with or without children produced!
Most voters not being doctors, I find that there are some rather large instances where they may be said to be practicing medicine without a license, where women’s health concerns are involved.