2. It's very important to look at what the anti-choice movement says and thinks. This is crucial: "The anti-abortion groups define the pill and IUDs as abortifacients"https://twitter.com/archpundit/status/1522052802163646467 …
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3. Opposition to contraception used to be overwhelming a Catholic thing (Monty Python's Meaning of Life has a ribald skit on that point). That's changed over last few decades as anti-choice Protestants have started to accept logic of Humanae Vitae.
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4. I have quite a few evangelical friends and I really started noticing in 1990s that the more intellectual among them were drawn to Catholic arguments against birth control. This is a process decades in the making. Secular liberals & libertarians haven't noticed.
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5. I don't think it's sufficiently understood how radical doctrine of fetal personhood is and all the implications it'll have if it gets enshrined (which is next step): not just for abortion but for birth control, for federalism, for miscarriages, for the autonomy of most women
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6. Since people have queried this, I want to clarify that it's not that I think Plan B, IUDs, etc are abortifacients, but rather that the anti-choice people do, which means but their logical they will have to go after Griswold & right to birth control.https://twitter.com/HeerJeet/status/1522053264593858561 …
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Also when you painstakingly assemble a very large bulldozer over 30 years, you can't afford that thing to sit idle
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More like 50 years
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That see-no-evil thing is a psychological phenomenon.
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Oh they’ve been open about it for years. They consider hormonal birth control & IUDs abortifacients. They’ll move quickly on this. Prob before Obergfell. Cuz they loathe women with bodily autonomy.
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And hormonal bc & IUDs and PlanB, that’s the whole ballgame, folks.
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