I’m OK with birth control. But when it comes to abortion, that is where I draw the line.
this woman probably thinks expecting her to use birth control is “oppressive patriarchal tyranny”
“I’m OK with birth control . ...”
What you are OK with is preventing, or avoiding, conception. And that’s quite OK with most folks, including myself. Perhaps I’m overly hung up on semantics, the actual, objective meanings of words. Or not.
I used tofeel the same way. Forty + years ago, it made perfect sense to me: the more conrtaception, the less abortion.
Fourty + years' experience has taught me something, though. It's that contraceptive-acceptance is the larval stage of abortion-acceptance. With the single exception of the Soviet Union, in every other country on earth, contraceptive acceptance preceded and triggered abortion-acceptance, and contraception and abortion go up in tandem. Also on the upward curve: STD's. Also on the upward curve: non-marital childbearing.
And at the same time, what's crashing: marriage and birth in wedlock.
I used to say, "If abotion is the fire, contraception is the water.
I now say, with vastly more evidence: "If abortion is the fire, contraception is the gasoline."
I understand what you are saying, but the truth is that abortion and contraception go had in glove with one another.
Once we divorced procreation from the sexual act, we opened the door to serial divorce, unwed mothers, and the legitimacy of abortion because one never really wanted to get pregnant anyway. A large percentage of abortions are because contraception failed.