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To: Cry if I Wanna
The pill was just a new form of birth control. People have been using birth control for a very long time.

Which was part of my point, yes. However, the pill is different from some other forms - since the pill, or some pills, apparently do not prevent conception. But that's another topic, and I don't pretend to know enough about that to speak of it in depth.

16 posted on 05/04/2015 7:14:42 AM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (www.FireKarlRove.com NOW)
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To: C. Edmund Wright; Cry if I Wanna
The pill was just a new form of birth control. People have been using birth control for a very long time.

There are many other forms of birth control, and a RCC friend once told me Catholics have a special name for those who rely on them: "parents".

The pill (along with things like implants and IUDs), in contrast, was a revolutionary paradigm shift that turned contraception from something that might prevent pregnancy in 20% of couples using it over the course of a year into something that permitted women to prevent pregnancy reliably more than 95% of the time. Coupled with unrestricted abortion for those who fell in the remaining 5%, there is no meaningful comparison between the pill as birth control and any other mechanism.

21 posted on 05/04/2015 7:38:10 AM PDT by FateAmenableToChange
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