Banning Abortion AND Birth Control

Most pro-life people, and all of the major pro-life groups in the United States, want birth control banned along with abortion.  Even for married people.  The first time a rational person realizes this, they react with a sort of incredulous disbelief.  The typical response goes something like this:

"(nervous laughter) What??  So, what are you saying?  That people, even in a marriage, should only have sexual intercourse the number of times that equals the number of children that they want?  So if they want 3 children they'll have sex 3 times in their entire lives?"

The response is a completely serious, "Yes."  They go on to say something like, "But we think sex is an important part of a marriage, but you must be open to having children every time you do it."

Back in the day, it was only devout Catholics who felt this way.  All 2 of them.  Now this twisted thinking has spread to the fundamental Christians.  And there are a lot of them, And they vote.

Here's an exchange from the All Drama All of the Time  discussion board: 

Futureshock:   "If you are trying to make abortion illegal AND making contraception too expensive for many women to afford, that's kind of ridiculous isn't it?"

NorthStar:  "How so?"

Futureshock:  "Because people are going to have sex and women are not going to have anymore children than they want. So women will be forced to undergo dangerous procedures in back alleys JUST LIKE THEY DID PRE-ROE and PRE-GRISWOLD ."

Many people do not realize how recent the right to use birth control is.  In fact, many people do not even know that using birth control was illegal!  The Supreme Court Case that legalized birth control for married couples only, Griswold v. Connecticut , didn't occur until 1965.

The Supreme Court decision, Eisenstadt_v._Baird, allowing unmarried couples to use birth control, came even later in 1972. It's important to realize that all three of these decisions are in jeopardy of being overturned.