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streamofthesky posted...

I remember back when Plan B needed a doctor visit and prescription b/c the Christian Taliban had fought to keep it that way. My now-wife and I were in college and had a scare (rip in condom) and had to go see a doc and it was like a damn interview, asking about our lives and how we weren't ready for a kid yet, being in college and all. In the end, she said she'd write the prescription, because "we seemed like nice people". Which immediately made me wonder "what if we didn't garner her personal approval?" and how f***ed up that was.

Yep. It's really quite sickening how so many "pro-life" people just exploit the baby's life to make a more credible emotional appeal than their actual position of "we just want to punish dirty sex-having women." There are reams of evidence out there demonstrating that comprehensive sex ed and subsidized birth control do far more to reduce unplanned pregnancy rates (and, by extension, abortions) than strict anti-abortion laws do, but you never seem to see pro-lifers advocating for such ideas. Can't imagine why that is.

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