In Which I Attempt To Be At Least Slightly Politically Neutral And Most Probably Fail Completely :(

[ruby_c_took]

Science. It's fun. It's complicated. It's precise. It's also often invoked in rhetoric to make things 'true', whether there is actual science going on or not. I take exception at this -- especially that the most abused facet of scientific research is most scientists' devotion to accuracy

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[ruby_c_took]

lol, your comment was short! well, sort of.

Unfortunately, I think for some of the more religious (well, Catholic) based groups, the reason is that they see birth control as abortion. I think they really do -- one quote about not using condoms mentioned how birth control is going directly against God's will and therefore is wrong.

The largest group of women who currently get abortions are women who already have children, which I think is a positive sign when it comes to abortion encouraging sex before marriage. I'm not sure how they count pregnancies terminated because of a problem with the fetal development, though, which would be interesting to know. I think there's also a fairly decent amount of women who do end up having a child/another child some time after an abortion.

I know that the AARP is fairly ridiculous, but I'm almost afraid to ask about the PTA. That's the Parent Teacher's Association, right? We didn't have a chapter here, lol, and I didn't realize they were also a political force. But that's the reason I don't like giving money to the Democratic Party itself, because there are too many different issues, some of which I don't agree with. Also, they're pretty disappointing.