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February 28, 2006

Submit your vagina or die

If you're into the whole Stepford notion of having your woman submit her vagina to the good of the rightwing social order, have I got a website for you.

No Room For Contraception is a shiny new resource for the crowd looking for trumped up societal erosion caused by couples who use contraception.

Oh how I wish I were kidding.

Mary Worthington, a co-founder of the site slaps up this one research citation as proof that oral contraceptives kill a woman sex drive.

I don't have access to read this research beyond the abstract unless I get in my car and drive to one of the big college libraries. Not likely today. But even Worthington has to admit that "more evidence is needed for an accurate correlation to be seen." Not exactly irrefutable proof.

Not to mention that there are a multitude of other contraceptives available--which I'm sure will still rustle the feathers of Ms. Worthington while still keeping a woman's ability to tip the horny meter intact.

If the Catholic Church is going to insist that couples can't use birth control--are they going to pony up the cash for all the children born to couples who can't afford to pay for them? Or is the Catholic Church going to demand Welfare be reformed to make it easier for families to get government assistance?

Yeah, not likely.

Weird how they can get so torqued up about people before they're born--but manage such a laissez faire attitude about them once they've passed through the womb.

Posted by Carla at February 28, 2006 04:49 PM