{"id":23381,"date":"2011-11-02T09:50:42","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T15:50:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/bye-bye-birth-control.html"},"modified":"2011-11-02T11:44:53","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T17:44:53","slug":"bye-bye-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/bye-bye-birth-control.html","title":{"rendered":"Bye-bye, Birth Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s long been folks in the pro-Choice movement who&#39;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 &quot;personhood&quot; 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.<\/p>\n<p>The &quot;unintended&quot; consequences of personhood proposals are remarkable &#8212; and I use the quotations because, like with birth control, it&#39;s unclear how &quot;unintended&#39; some of them are.<\/p>\n<p>I&#39;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.<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style='height:120px;width:120px;overflow:hidden;float:left;margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px;margin-right:10px;vertical-align:top;text-align:center;clear:both;'>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img style='max-width:none;' src='http:\/\/images0-focus-opensocial.googleusercontent.com\/gadgets\/proxy?container=focus&#038;gadget=a&#038;resize_h=100&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fthinkprogress.org%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F11%2Fbirthcontrol2.jpg' border='0' \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/health\/2011\/11\/01\/358658\/personhood-usa-confirms-that-mississippi-abortion-ban-would-outlaw-birth-control-pills\/'>Personhood USA Confirms That Mississippi Abortion Ban Would Outlaw Birth Control Pills<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNext Tuesday, Mississippians will go to the polls to decide on Initiative 26, a personhood amendment to the state constitution that defines a person as \u201cevery human being from the moment of fertilizat&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#39;s long been folks in the pro-Choice movement who&#39;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 &quot;personhood&quot; law movement demonstrates that, at least in the anti-abortion fringe, elimination of most forms of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/02\/bye-bye-birth-control.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Bye-bye, Birth Control&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,9,27,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-politics-law","category-religion","category-zt-pc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":23461,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/05\/when-the-catholic-bishops-arent-behind-your-anti-abortion-measure.html","url_meta":{"origin":23381,"position":0},"title":"When the Catholic Bishops aren&#39;t behind your anti-abortion measure &#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 5-Nov-11 12:09pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Granted, part of their motivation is that it possibly makes their own anti-abortion measures look bad, but in part it's because ... well, it's a crappy, overreaching, hubristic, theologically dubious, constitutionally questionable proposal. #ddtb Embedded Link Mississippi Catholic Bishop, Religious Leaders Denounce Personhood Anti-Abortion Bill This Tuesday, Mississippians will vote\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;~PlusPosts&quot;","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":24289,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/06\/when-birth-control-is-outlawed-only-outlaws-or-the-elite-will-use-birth-c.html","url_meta":{"origin":23381,"position":1},"title":"When birth control is outlawed, only outlaws &#8212; or the elite &#8212; will use birth c&#8230;","author":"***Dave","date":"Tue 6-Dec-11 9:13pm","format":false,"excerpt":"When birth control is outlawed, only outlaws -- or the elite -- will use birth controlThough I'm sure Newt will know how to score some for his next affair.I mean, really. Does anyone think that Newt and his various mistresses-turned-wives over the years didn't use birth control? 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