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Okay, so I used to actively run from anything political (comes from having grandparents who nearly physically fought over it, so dad didn't allow it in the house). However, civic responsibility, blah blah, and people post it on the fb, so I've been keeping up on some of the douchebaggery (and signing lots of petitions. At least I can do that
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1) "Aspirin between her knees," not penicillin. The implication being that if her knees are clamped together tight enough that an aspirin, clamped between them, can't fall, then she can't get pregnant. (Which isn't even true, for what it's worth.) What he meant, no, really, what he meant, was: "If you don't want (more) babies, don't fuck. No, not even your husband. You're supposed to get pregnant every time you fuck."
2) I have been warning people for over thirty years now that Roe v Wade is the logical, inescapable, direct and fully accurately legally reasoned result of Griswold v Connecticut, the Supreme Court decision that struck down state and federal anti-contraception laws. I have been warning people since the 1980s that if they ever succeed in outlawing abortion, at least half of the states in the union will also outlaw contraception. Most people thought I was exaggerating.
3) For way, way too long, people who are pro-contraception and pro-legalized-abortion have been too quiet about challenging the pre-scientific, and unscriptural, claim that a fertilized egg is a human being, and thus a citizen. People didn't want to get into that argument. They thought they could win on other grounds. But if the claim that "it's a child, not a choice" can be said in public without the same ridicule that would accompany the claim that "the Bible says the earth is flat, and that settles it" would get, if you don't challenge that assertion at its root every time it comes up, then eventually you will lose access to both abortion and to all non-barrier methods of birth control. There is no doubt in my mind about this.
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