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[blue_sky_day]

Selling Rubbers

This article puzzles me. Why is someone with pro-choice* views more worried about the "problem" of abortion? Why does he write several articles about it, and none on, say, root canals? Where exactly is the logic in his position? In what way does he consider abortion a "problem"?

(*I read through some of his back entries, and none

Comments

[weirdmisty]

A lot of leftists don't like abortions, know that it's murder, and are unwilling to admit that they know that because adhering to the political views demanded of them by the American "everything is always acceptable" society. You'd be surprised by how many people deep down have a problem with abortion, but still think everyone should be allowed to go out and kill their babies, because if they don't think so, they get shunned.

[pauraque]

I agree there can be a lot of social pressure to support abortion rights. I live in San Francisco; I often feel like if I admitted in public to being pro-life I'd get stoned to death. :P

Additionally, it's possible to think abortion is bad but sincerely believe that banning it would make things worse (often a comparison is made to Prohibition spawning speakeasies and organized bootlegging). Whether you buy that logic or not, a lot of people do think that way.

[lavendersparkle]

I thing that confuses me is that he thinks that government policy is incapable of changing the amount that people have sex, but he thinks that it will magically be able to change whether people use contraception, when he's accepted that access hasn't made people use it more.

I mean, greater public information on contraception through campaigns and sex ed might increase contraception use but why should that be easier than convincing them to change their sexual habits in other ways.