The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #113501   Message #2414788
Posted By: Bee
15-Aug-08 - 01:42 PM
Thread Name: BS: Contraception = Abortion
Subject: RE: BS: Contraception = Abortion
The attitude that getting pregnant and/or having a baby is a 'price' to be paid, or a punishment for sexual activity, or a punishment for being uneducated or careless, really has to be eliminated from the public discourse surrounding birth control.

A baby is not a punishment for a woman's behaviour. Forcing a woman to continue an unwanted pregnancy out of a misguided moral notion that she 'deserves' it is one of the more unpleasant talking points I hear. It is a visible part of the public discourse when exceptions to abortion are considered on the basis of whether the woman's pregnancy results from rape or incest. Such an exception makes it clear that the real reason for wanting to limit a woman's access to abortion has to do with the woman's morality, and not the life of a fetus.