Bishops and clerics and old guys in suits- sounds like the beginning of a ribald limerick. Unfortunately, it's not. These guys are weighing in on contraceptives. Yikes! Have we reeled back history?
Any woman today who is not totally marginal relies on the certitude of contraceptives, and we have done this for a long generation. We are not about to go back to the dark ages of barefoot and pregnant. Controlling our own fertility is now a right of women and we are not going to give this up (whatever those old guys in suits may say.)
I think that this issue is really about how we regard children in our society. A wanted and planned for child is so much more likely to prosper and grow. And then lots of families who cannot support all these children are desperate. The programs for kids are always the first to be cut, the first to be strangled out of existence.
These folks who see the contraception and abortion issues as "immoral" do not then look ahead to what kinds of support we should give to kids! No contraception, no abortion, and you have many kids who have no safety net. What are those guys thinking??
And then, of course, there is the issue of personal privacy and choice. Why are these old guys in suits (Mitch McConnell etc.) telling us women we should not have a choice in the most important biological aspect of our lives? I, for one, refuse to vote for anyone who for cynical political reasons would rescind my hard won opportunity of choice about kids.
Conservatism used to be a philosophy, and a decent one. I am distressed that now it seems to be about mean spiritedness; children are just pawns and drek in the political process.
Enough of this screed. I am off to the hot tub.
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