Good luck with that. You'll have to create a Saudi Arabia/Iran type theocracy.
There will be tens of billions of dollars worth of birth control pills smuggled across the border each year, along with thousands of meth-lab equivalents cranking the pills out.
Are you going to randomly test women to see if they're on the pill?
It's not worth thinking about policies that aren't remotely implementable.
The cat is out of the bag
But just banning something isn't the answer. You have to change hearts and minds to destroy the demand.
A ban on contraception similar to the ban on recreational drugs will probably have the same effect as the ban on drugs: reduce the use, create another massive law enforcement boondoggle and be viewed as another step toward a police state.
However, the present state of affairs is intolerable, when contraception is promoted on television, sold alongside milk and eggs in supermarkets, or offered like medicine by “doctors”. What is needed is a campaign similar to one against tobacco, when advertising is countered and regulated, sales restricted, and promotional activities of the pharmaceutical companies probed.
I don’t think any of that will be possible until the economic crisis is compounded by a demographic crisis. Hopefully by the time that one strikes there will be enough of America left.
No law is completely enforcable. As one of you said, we have laws today against harmful drugs, yet they are still sold and consumed.
The argument some of you are making is that because enforcement is difficult, immoral and harmful practices should be allowed. The same argument is made for legalization of marijuana. cocaine, heroin, and other drugs.
If abortion is banned, there will still be some abortions taking place, yet it should be made illegal for the good of society and to reduce the number of abortions. The argument you make can be used against making any harmful activity illegal.
Borges, yes, adultery and fornication should be illegal. It wasn’t too many years ago that it was illegal in most places in America.
This is why some "conservatives" (e.g. Dinesh D'Sousa) are not really on board with the war against the Islamic Fundamentalist enemy. They realize that the obvious parallels between the enemy and themselves are embarassing, and will ultimately do to their position what the war against the Nazis did to genteel anti-Semitism.