what libtard crapola.
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The pill is responsible for more cases of breast cancer than anything else. When will that truth become common knowledge?!? The pill is literally death and it cannot be undone for those who find out too late.
“Unprecedented rates of divorce, single parenthood and semi-orphaned children during the past half-century torpedo any case that the Pill helped marriage. “
ROTFLMAO!
A democrat wet dream is to have this issue back... it’s as dead as a doornail...
Shall we debate having runners on cars? You don’t know what that is? They stopped putting them on cars around the same time the birth control pill issue was debated.
Give it up... the world has moved on. Even most Catholics support the pill today.
If the birth control pill did so much, there wouldn’t be so many abortions.
Deny love and you deny life. Deny life and you deny love. Lust replaced love. My generation championed the Pill. And now a good majority of the female members of my generation are the lonely this article speaks of. The Pill is what did that.
Sexual freedom comes at a great price.
Too late... Unless we drain all of the Nation's reservoirs...
I for one welcome our sterile artificially intelligent pleasure bot companion overlords.
It's just not called that.
What a load of barfola!
You got a time machine I'm not aware of?
The birth control pill didn't do this alone. The abortion license also played a role. In generational terms, the two were near contemporaries, and they were certainly driven culturally and politically by the same impulse: to demoralize sex and normalize non-marital sex.
Prior to the birth control pill, the teleology of sex was unquestioned. Sex produced babies. It was important. It was consequential, with high probability. Licit sex was the foundation of families. Illicit sex was dangerous; it wrecked lives and destroyed families. Sex was powerful and not a toy. It was treated with care. Yes, people could and did cheat, but they did so at their own considerable risk.
The birth control pill then changed the game. It enabled the view that sex was primarily recreational. Casual sex was ok. You could have sex with no consequences (and the abortion license said that if you made a mistake, you could just kill it). Culture does not change overnight, but two generations later, every consequence to which Eberstadt points has indeed come to pass.
She might also have mentioned that every wealthy technological society that has embraced the pill, which is all of them, is now below replacement rate in fertility. The moderns do not regard this as a problem; they are too busy having sex to have children, and they are willing outsource this job to backward third world peoples who still make babies. Much of the left, in fact, looks down on "breeders" and is busily reengineering society as a playground for swinging singles and childless couples, with ever-increasing economic pressure on families with children.
The view of sex as primarily recreational -- i.e., forgetting the telos -- has now reached the point at which the sexual revolutionaries reject the very idea of gender and thinks it is ok for bearded penis people to invade women's locker rooms, dressing rooms and showers, because gender is really just a state of mind.
Yeah, Paul VI was right.
All forms of contraception are evil; and in particular , condoms and the pill
Modern medicine including antibiotics, starting with penicillin, has decreased infant, childhood and early adult mortality to the point that you don’t need to parent 10 children in order to assure that two survive. This is the real economic change affecting marital stability.
Cell phones have done far more social damage than the pill ever did. In my day, it made dating more accessible, wrong, but more accessible. The real thing that puzzles the crap out of me, what did black female ever do without the cell phone? I rarely see one who is not yapping on one. White people tend to text.
My first wife and I enjoyed the pill. She had horrible periods that left her unable to go to work. It moderated that and made her life better. Much better. We were not ready for kids at that time in our life, and after she met a predatory lesbian at her new job, she left. Thank the heavens that we never had kids. In the right circumstances the Pill is okay.