I meant to write about this anti-contraception campaign a while back, but it completely slipped my mind. Thank goodness for the Christian Wire Service and bad press releases.
No Room for Contraception is a web resource/campaign kind of thing that claims to shed light on "the potential problems contraception brings to marriage and society." Sweet.
Founder Mary Worthington on emergency contraception in the campaign's latest press release:
"Though conscience clauses have been enacted in several states to protect physicians and nurses who do not wish to participate in abortion, these clauses must now be rewritten to include specific protection for pharmacists, hospitals and all other healthcare workers who do not wish to participate in the distribution of emergency contraception and any other chemical or barrier contraception or other products found to be objectionable, such as drugs to assist in suicide."
Contraception, assisted suicide--what's the difference?
Another gem from Worthington: Did contraception lead to homosexuality?
Yeah, I'm serious.
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Worthington's mindset brings to mind a Bible verse -- John 11:35. ("Jesus wept.")
Since we're allowing so many people to be able to choose not to do things that they think are objectionable in their jobs, why don't we include postal workers? Then they can choose not to deliver Playboys and Hustlers to their recipients. Or maybe the sales clerk at K-Mart can choose not to sell me condoms or my Bitch magazine. Where does it end???
Both the testimonials are about the gazillions of tiny babies the women "lost" due to the evil, abortifacient birth control pill. They claim to feel the same loss and sadness as any woman who has had a surgical abortion feels (becausae women should feel oh so guilty).
Nevermind that the pill works almost exclusively by suppressing ovulation and in the very rare case of fertilization taking place and only theoretically could prevent implantation. I read that the estimation for prevention of implantation is a 0.5% chance. Compare that to a woman who is not taking contraception having a failure to implant 50-80% of the time.
Next they'll be weeping over their bloody pads. Oh, the potential life lost to the toilet! How selfish they were to not become pregnant every nine months!
What's amazing is that Ms. Worthington is all of 23 years old, meaning that it's ben since her grandmother's time that we haven't seen the sort of forced breeding that she so ignorantly admires.
A few too many babies, a fertile spouse, and a parish priest who offers only stern reminders of her wifely duties does a great deal to change one's mind on such things.
Yeah, contraception has threatened marriage. The marriage as defined as slavery for the woman.
Oh My! You mean women might have other wants and needs besides being a baby machine?
No! What will we do!
It never ceases to amaze me how readily sanctimonious, self-seeking religious zealots extoll the virtues of past societal structures, whilst blithely ignoring the fact, that the only reason that they are endowed with this luxury and the forum in which to laud their very selective, Eutopian view ... is because we have fucking moved on!
Well I sure hope she gets around to saving the lives of all those little spermies, the poor seed spilled on the ground. So wasteful.