chess: (something)
Michelle Taylor ([personal profile] chess) wrote in [personal profile] naath 2012-11-27 06:07 pm (UTC)

Having been having this argument with the other side, their standard rebuttals are:

1) contraception is actually abortion (which appears to be wrong, but I have struggled quite hard to find unbiased-phrasing science which proves this / the points in the Patheos article - if you can find actual science I can link people who believe this to, that would be great)

2) you only need contraception if you want to have sex whilst not wanting to have a baby, and having sex outside a marriage is bad, and not wanting babies inside a marriage is bad, so even a tiny chance of contraception actually being abortion is too much to risk

3) if you didn't want to be saddled with a baby you shouldn't have had sex (possibly followed by 'the root of all problems in our society is that people want drugs and sex, and should just have some self-control instead')

4) If the government didn't keep taxing people then they would have more money to invest in science

All of that is pretty grim reading, but that's what real people who you're up against here actually think.

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