 So, you thought that the pro-life lobby is just interested in saving unborn babies, right?
You almost certainly visited some pro-life sites and have seen the graphic images of bloody and dismembered fetuses. You may have mixed feelings about abortion and have acted correctly by using dependable methods of contraception such as the pill, DEPO or the IUD.
What you may not understand is that those who are in opposition to abortion are also against dependable contraception and sex instruction. Their purpose is to ban not only abortion but contraception, sex education and sex outside of marriage. Their task is to censure women to continuous childbearing, remember that the usual woman spends around three decades of her life trying to avoid pregnancy.
By blocking women's access to the means of controlling their fertility they hope to roll back all the gains in education, work and financial independence that women have made in the recent forty years.
Pro-lifers often debate that a woman can decide not to be pregnant by avoiding sex, having sex is not consent to pregnancy (the same way that consent to swim is not consent to drown).
People have a right to non-procreative sex, as it is a strong natural urge that cannot (and should not) be repressed, and sex has other very important functions besides procreation - it promotes good physical and mental health, intimacy, and love. It cements bonds, keeps marriages going, and last but far from least - it's highly pleasurable, which makes it an ethical pursuit in itself.
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