“And I’d also argue that contraception is not the equivalent of abortion.”
Maybe, but contraceptives can and do act as abortifacients. It can’t be known in specific cases whether or not they are acting as abortifacients, but the hard truth is contraceptives are probably destroying more nascent lives than direct abortion on a scale of about 10-1. Pope Benedict XVI pointed this out basically saying who can count the numbers of this “massacre” of contraception not preventing conception but implantation.
This is why you zealots are going to lose every election from here on out if you run on contraceptives like the birth control pill is abortion do you realize how nuts that sounds? So you don’t want abortion we get it but you also want to take away the most effective way to avoid the need for abortions. Absolute insanity and your cause should be rightfully crushed. This is also why people hate HATE Catholics it’s crazy talk like this and a Marxist Pope. I got a grand Texas will be purple at best and blue in November due exclusively to the crazy right and the total ban on abortions here , going after birth control too would be political suicide and ensure a bright blue state.