Gaye, I'm going to try again.......
Removing the option of birth control gives a woman exactly three choices. Remain celibate both outside and inside marriage, use family planning, or have children. Family planning, while more effective than nothing, is not anywhere near foolproof, and if contraception is banned, I am 100% certain abortion would be banned. So, in order to remain totally child free a woman would have to be celibate, which is ridiculous within a marriage, and pretty darn ludicrous in my opinion for a grown adult......
As soon as I see how this election shakes out, I'm going to get sterilized before it is too late for me to do so.
Gosh Trish, that last comment of yours just shows how terribly concerned you are about where all this desire to control women's birth control options might be leading.
How crazy is it all?
I can't help thinking 'aren't there much bigger issues on the planet'? If any religious group wants to make an issue of 'right to life' then why don't they show it by getting involved in helping the living first?
So many tragic little children's faces on humanitarian websites needing adoption, fostering and homes. Why don't they focus on that instead? If I saw someone protesting outside an abortion clinic without a little refugee baby on their hip (which probably isn't the best place to take a child, I admit) I'd want to tell them they were full of it. Why not put up or shut up?
World Vision for example. I know it's not much considering...., but I've got one credit card going just for World Vision child sponsoring. And I feel inadequate even about that.
Back on topic. Without legalized birth control we return to a situation of backyard abortions. Is that the alternative? How gruesome!!! Very nasty for the victims and highly profitable for the quacks. And Pennyroyal or Peppermint Tea can only do so much.
I had children using the Billings method! LOL. Not that I mind now. No way!!!!But it sure was a surprise at the time, I can tell you. I was almost tempted to hunt down Dr Billings and tell him a thing or two, but being a christian and a pro-lifer I didn't.
It's not anyone else's business but the womans what she does with her body, or her life, so long as she's taking responsibility for herself.
I've seen what eventuates with unwanted or inconvenient children. It's just darn terrible.
Mind you, I've known women who didn't want children and had them, and are wonderful, and very happy mothers.
But having an unwanted child, very sad. They're emotionally handicapped even before day one! I have nightmares sometimes about the condition of some of the unwanted kids lives I know. I'm like that. It really gets to me.
Anyway, enough of that. I was just returning here to say, 'keep up the good work'. And that I completely agree with your position and forum purpose. Also, I've read your banner, so I imagine that means you've come in for some pretty serious flack.
So just offering an alternative POV. Soldier on, keep on truckin', and more power to ya'.
The more freedoms for women won, the better!