I think that we are of the age that all of our mothers were “right to lifers” back then.
But, I grew up in unusual circumstances.
My mother was really smart, too. When she met my dad in Miami (during the last years of WW2,) she was a stewardess for Pam Am airlines and went all over the America’s. A pretty worldly gal….
My Dad was a Navy Flight Surgeon in the Pacific, doing his duty after he finished Med School. His biggest assignment was in China, before the big revolution. He “birthed” a lot of babies there. In fact, he changed his focus in medicine to OB/GYN. He really, really, liked it.
He also learned a big lesson. Women should be in control of their fertility. His eventual partner in their medical practice thought that as well. His partner (good devoted Methodist) did several church missions to teach birth control in India.
Well, as one can see, not having access to contraception is just a crazy thought to me.
Sex is biological imperative, even for Baptists.
When I hear about “stay at home mothers” and all, I think that is GREAT! But, sorry, I can’t give you a gold star for taking responsibility for your offspring or your life choices.
I take full responsibility for making a decision when I was in my 20’s NOT to have children.
Thank goddess, then, I had access to birth control, because I do like a little roll in the hay….
And so do the males that want to restrict access to birth control…
Assholes….
Birth control is one issue. Abortion is a different issue. Birth control is a passive action. Abortion is an assertive action. The birth control issue does not carry much moral baggage with it. Abortion on the other hand is ladened with all sorts of philosophical and psychological dilemmas. Male domination being the lest of them. Consistency is far and away its greatest problem. If one is strongly opposed to the deaths that ‘war’ brings and the legal murder of human beings by the state using ‘capital punishment’, how can one in good conscience support abortion and then claim some consistency on those issues? If a river runs through your property and you choose to dump toxic waste into it doesn’t your neighbor have a right and a duty to stop you? That would depend on what your stand is on pollution.
I think that we are of the age that all of our mothers were “right to lifers” back then.
But, I grew up in unusual circumstances.
My mother was really smart, too. When she met my dad in Miami (during the last years of WW2,) she was a stewardess for Pam Am airlines and went all over the America’s. A pretty worldly gal….
My Dad was a Navy Flight Surgeon in the Pacific, doing his duty after he finished Med School. His biggest assignment was in China, before the big revolution. He “birthed” a lot of babies there. In fact, he changed his focus in medicine to OB/GYN. He really, really, liked it.
He also learned a big lesson. Women should be in control of their fertility. His eventual partner in their medical practice thought that as well. His partner (good devoted Methodist) did several church missions to teach birth control in India.
Well, as one can see, not having access to contraception is just a crazy thought to me.
Sex is biological imperative, even for Baptists.
When I hear about “stay at home mothers” and all, I think that is GREAT! But, sorry, I can’t give you a gold star for taking responsibility for your offspring or your life choices.
I take full responsibility for making a decision when I was in my 20’s NOT to have children.
Thank goddess, then, I had access to birth control, because I do like a little roll in the hay….
And so do the males that want to restrict access to birth control…
Assholes….
Birth control is one issue. Abortion is a different issue. Birth control is a passive action. Abortion is an assertive action. The birth control issue does not carry much moral baggage with it. Abortion on the other hand is ladened with all sorts of philosophical and psychological dilemmas. Male domination being the lest of them. Consistency is far and away its greatest problem. If one is strongly opposed to the deaths that ‘war’ brings and the legal murder of human beings by the state using ‘capital punishment’, how can one in good conscience support abortion and then claim some consistency on those issues? If a river runs through your property and you choose to dump toxic waste into it doesn’t your neighbor have a right and a duty to stop you? That would depend on what your stand is on pollution.