Oral contraception to PREVENT ovulation is a good thing unless one has religious objections. Saying they allow women “... to act as irresponsibly about their sexuality as sailors on shore leave...” is not a religious objection. Sounds more like ‘most women would be sluts if given a chance.’
Yes, there are other ways to prevent fertilization. That’s how I ended up with my third child at 36. Then I went fail safe: had my tubes tied and had a tubal pregnancy at 38.
I used the pill off & on during my fertile years. Wasn’t a slut & paid for it out of pocket.
As well you SHOULD pay for it out of your own pocket!
That is the point.
As for fail safe. A tubal pregnancy caused by tubal ligation is hardly fail safe. What it was was a potential deadly medical condition caused by the tubal ligation.
The safest way to prevent pregnancy is to understand female fertility and abstain from sexual intercourse during the time that a woman is fertile. Beyond that, the use of massive artificial chemical hormones not only can effect women’s health negatively. They leach into our water supply and effect the fertility and life of others in the society.
Believe it. Contraception is the well dressed step child of abortion. It is because of the widely accepted use of contraception and the idea of ‘wanted’ and ‘unwanted children’ that abortion is not only widely available, but morally acceptable to so many people.
” Sounds more like ‘most women would be sluts if given a chance.’”
Based on abortion rates, out of wedlock births and almost unanimous polls on sexual attitudes it seems that if not MOST women, certainly a large percentage of women are little more than sluts NOW!
BTW. The failure rate for oral contraception is between 1-5%.
If 1 - 5 of every plane that was flown crashed, how many people would be flying?
Abortion is the fail safe of contraception. It is utilized by a third of all American women over the course of a lifetime and by over a million women every year.