As with the progression of society, as new incidents arise, a novelty vocabulary is introduced. "A new term has emerged for the leaders of states where abortion laws have tightened: 'gyno-governors'".
Pro-Choice advocates are calling for Pro-Life advocates to 1) stop calling themselves Pro-Life and instead say "Anti-choice" because that is essentially their standpoint, 2) stop trying to control women's (blutnly) vaginas--be it, the use of birth control (preemptive measures) or abortion (last-resort).
Of course, there's always two sides to a story. While Pro-Choicers want women to be able to control what they do with their reproductive organs, Pro-Lifers say that proponents of women's are basically pushing an agenda that influences, and makes acceptable, thousands of women having loads and loads of sex, taking (or not taking) birth control and then, in drones, piling into abortion clinics going wild over their freedom to terminate pregnancies...
While I find it hard to believe that upholding women's rights to contraception and abortion will cause people to disregard safe sex principles any more than they do already, I understand the sentiment that Pro-Lifer's fear. I'll just say that it costs A LOT less for society (in terms of health care, government benefits/funds) to prescribe birth control to a woman (and if we want to take it there, provide abortions) than take care of a (unwanted?) baby (pre-natal care, delivery fees, hospitalization, day care, elementary school, high school, college.....it goes on).
Instead of forcing your views on others about their bodies, how bout we try and make our country better?
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