Actually lets be clear. Most forms of pharmaceutical birth control do not prevent the sperm from fertilizing the ovum. They prevent the fertilized ovum from adhering to the wall of the uterus and the fertilized ovum (a human life if you define human life as begining at fertilization, a valid scientific definition) will die and be flushed from the uterus.
So the questions I ask you. If human life begins at fertilization and "the pill" prevents the fertilized ovum from implanting on the uterus thus resulting in it's death, have you killed a human life? If so, would not pharmaceutical birth control then be just as immoral as an early stage abortion?
Ah well, now you have hit on something. Before SF gets all overexcited, as is his habit, I am not speaking of him. Or of Damo. I have no idea how they feel about birth control, but I would assume they both use it.
But let's get to the
organized anti-choice movement. It is widely known and understood that by and large, the
organized so-called "pro-life" movement is religious-based and absolutely staunchly against sex education. That's known. What is less well-known outside of political, activist, and feminist circles, is that the organized movement is also largely anti birth-control as well. Are they all? Maybe not (though I would not accept verbal denials as proof), but they largely are.
These are the same people who agitate to allow pharmacists to not fill morning after pills, or even birth control pills. These are the same people who if you go their churches, read their organizational literature, you will find advocate sex being for procreation only. You simply do not prevent God's will, and you have intercourse with no birth control, though Catholics will often make the exception for the rhythm method, which is known in the sane world as "oops". Whenever you see a group using the phrase "abortifacient birth control" in their literature they are not talking about the morning after pill (which is also not an abortifacient). They are referring to IUD's and the birth control pill.
And now we get to why feminists write about the
organized anti-choice movement being steeped in misogyny, the desire of conservative men to control women's bodies, the desire for conservative men and conservative women to engage in "slut-shaming", and the ultimate goals of the organized anti-choice movement being to put women back in the kitchen barefoot and pregnant, with their mouths shut, and living in their Utopia of the perfect Patriarchal family and society.
