I’m not going to sugarcoat people’s bad decisions.

That being said, its clear that a wide array of contraceptive and reproductive services need to be available. I do wish the abortion rate could be lowered somehow, as I think all surgery is inherently risky and getting condoms and OCPs into every single person’s pocket is a better use of resources. Condoms and OCPs should be so freely available that they are discarded as trash on the street. That would go a long ways towards lowering the abortion rate and saving money overall.

And all I can say to that is, if feminism gives you the ability to travel back in time, live in any era you choose and then have the option of bringing said previous era’s politics back to the present . . . who the fuck wouldn’t want to be a feminist?

“We need to be presenting a person’s ability to have sex however s/he consensually wants to without government interference”
Translation: “How dare woman have to take responsibility for the consequences of spreading their legs. Only men should be forced to take responsibility if women choose not to abort the baby.”

“I want to say here that I have no problem with adoption.”
Translation: “women who choose adoption are making those of us who choose to kill our offspring look selfish”

“There are already very large numbers of children awaiting adoption. And what, exactly, are we to do with them? Is it right for the government to encourage women to bring children into the world with no place for them to go?”
Translation: “these kids are better off ripped into a little pieces and thrown into a trash can than having to wait to be adopted and if they are never adopted going on to be ummm….. adult people who were never adopted…wait that doesn’t sound that horrible..shhhhhhhh”

“And I think that the majority of the rest of the American public does not think that sex is immoral.”
Translation: “we need to ignore that the overwhelming majority of Americans think that abortion on demand is immoral (every and I mean EVERY poll shows that). We can’t have are representatives voting for things the majority of Americans want..ummm…can we?”

Give it up you 60’s hangovers. We know the truth. The polling suggest you are losing.

the $64,000 question. i posted about this last week, with a bit of a different perspective, but coming back to your question above. this is our first chance to really get out from under the conservative frame on repro rights in over two decades! that means a) it’s going to really fucking hard work and b) it’s vitally necessary.

not two concepts that usually go well together when we’re talking about politics! and as badly as i want to support HRC, it’s here where she really starts to worry me (she is a clinton, after all).