I've talked to people who find abortion morally questionable but who aren't part of the obnoxious "pro-life" right-wing crowd; so I'm not sure those are *all* the people who disagree with me.
But yes, they are a problem.
Contraception being abortion depends on a)the method and b)what you believe counts as abortion. I think one would struggle *very hard* to make a case for condoms or tubal ligation as abortion; the claim that hormonal methods for people with ovaries can cause failure-to-implant if they fail to cause lack-of-ovulation is dubious, also the claim that failure-to-implant is abortion is, um, non-standard?. There is the argument that promoting the "I can choose if I have a baby" meme promotes abortion but historically the lack of reliable birth control has not prevented infanticide or people attempting to abort pregnancies with dubiously safe methods.
The idea that we should all have sex only as many times as it takes to have the number of babies we want to have is A Bit Weird to me really. Also what about rape? yes, of course rape is bad - but *having been raped* is not a sin (it's bad, but a different sort of bad). (surely it's not a sin?). Having 20 babies seems to make some people happy, but if we all did it there would be Too Many People...
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Date: 2012-11-27 08:03 pm (UTC)But yes, they are a problem.
Contraception being abortion depends on a)the method and b)what you believe counts as abortion. I think one would struggle *very hard* to make a case for condoms or tubal ligation as abortion; the claim that hormonal methods for people with ovaries can cause failure-to-implant if they fail to cause lack-of-ovulation is dubious, also the claim that failure-to-implant is abortion is, um, non-standard?. There is the argument that promoting the "I can choose if I have a baby" meme promotes abortion but historically the lack of reliable birth control has not prevented infanticide or people attempting to abort pregnancies with dubiously safe methods.
The idea that we should all have sex only as many times as it takes to have the number of babies we want to have is A Bit Weird to me really. Also what about rape? yes, of course rape is bad - but *having been raped* is not a sin (it's bad, but a different sort of bad). (surely it's not a sin?). Having 20 babies seems to make some people happy, but if we all did it there would be Too Many People...