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You are correct that I have said that the Pill functions as an abortifacient in some cases (as I understand it, it depends on a large number of factors whether it truly acts as a contraceptive or prevents implantation), but I have never advocated outlawing it. This may seem inconsistent, but the bottom line is that there is a vast gulf between a drug that sometimes eliminates an embryo without any person even knowing it existed and a conscious decision to turn a kid into medical waste. There's also a vast difference between the thuggish judicial activism of Roe vs. Wade and the acceptance of the Pill by the vast majority of Americans since the time it was introduced.

I read a surprising number of posts on FR where people are spouting the "next they'll come after birth control" line that issues from NARAL and PP, and I do characterize that as paranoia. I'd be surprised if even 1% of Freepers would sign on to a campaign to ban the Pill, but even if every Freeper was on board the chances of passing such a law would be about 500 trillion to one.

Oops, just re-read your post and realized (reading is fundamental!) that you were talking about what I'd seen, not what I'd written. Well, let me address that. I have seen posts on FR advocating that but it was a handfull. I've seen somewhere between several and a hundred times as many posts saying each of the following things:

1. The South should have won the Civil War because Abraham Lincoln was the greatest tyrant in American history (in threads that go on for thousands of posts)

2. George W. Bush is really a hard core NARAL-type pro-choicer

3. We should nuke every Muslim country in an unprovoked first strike.

4. The United States Navy shot down Flight 800 and hundreds of FBI and NTSB memebers helped cover it up.

5. Steve Irwin deserved to die.

No offense, but I doubt you're going to go into any thread on this board and act as if any significant number of Freepers believe those things, so why even bring up the Pill silliness? And even if every one of us wanted to ban the pill, would that change the fact that surgical abortion is dismemberment of a small child? Would it change the fact that virtually all of those kids are dismembered for the sake of convenience?