Right on the front page of the Ledger,in a little spot on the bottom left, is a story about the possibility that Mr. Bush and our lawmakers might back down and allow the morning-after pill to be sold over the counter – the debate right now, it seems, is over the age restriction clause. The folks still grasping at straws to keep it away from the women who need it are concerned that someone who’s of “legal age” to buy it might give it so someone who isn’t.
So it got me to thinking a bit.
My feeling is that if you’re opposed to abortion or birth control, then you’re well within your rights to not have an abortion or use birth control. Most people who don’t get abortions or don’t use birth control are doing it because they want to have children. I think it’s been said enough times here and a bazillion other places how stupid it is to make people who don’t want to have children have them, but this is only the beginning of my runaway train thought process.
I’ll spare you the intermediate thoughts, but suffice it to say, they finally came to a stop at this one. . .
The people who want to use birth control and/or have abortions are not constricted by the uber-christian religious right mentality. Therefore, if they are restricted from having reproductive freedom and are forced to give birth and raise children by the rulings of said religious right, then not only will they be raising children in a non-uber-christian religious right fashion, but they will also have a resentment that might well lead to them raising those children in an environment that is distinctly ANTI-uber-christian religious right. So, by restricting birth control and abortion, the UCRR (for short) will actually be condemning themselves to a serious problem in about 16-18 years, when all these children whose mothers have raised them to hate the UCRR reach an age where they become inclined to speak their minds to society. You would think, given this, that the serious UCRRs would be giving people lifts to the clinics rather than picketing them. After all, it’s a lot easier than trying to convert those children later when their minds are already set against the UCRR.