Separation of church and state! Then how will the Christian Right push it's propaganda?
You know, sometimes I think that there's no possible way that I could hate radical conservatives more, and then they go and do something that proves me all wrong. The Pill Kills 2008 protest, way to make a lie into a movement. Just in case you were wondering what the anti-choice's true motives were, you can now rest easy that your question has been answered. They really want to take away any choice a woman may have, even her right to privacy, and heaven forbid that she seek the truth, because they certainly don't support that there. The campaign basically says that birth control kills babies. They also claim that pro-choice groups like Planned Parenthood are lying to you to make a profit (because there's so much money to be made in low-to-no-cost healthcare).
If you think that they may have a point then by all means, please take a look at their website, especially their talking points. But be careful not to use any sort of logic at all, because then you wouldn't be able to believe or support any of it.
Just for fun, lets go over a few of my favorite points:
Q: Isn’t it better to be on the pill when you
are sexually active?
A: Better for whom? The pill does not prevent you from getting a sexually transmitted disease, it is not 100 percent effective in preventing pregnancy and you could conceive a child who gets chemically aborted before the baby’s presence is even known to you. Moreover, sexual activity outside of marriage is seriously wrong.
Yes, lets convince young women that they are evil if the have sex before they get married, and then for good measure let's decrease the chances that if they do have sex that it'll involve protection.
Q: The Supreme Court has ruled that it’s my right to privacy — who do you think you are to say otherwise?
A: On June 7, 1965, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down the Griswold v. Connecticut decision. The Supreme Court justices first presumed that previous Court decisions dealing with a citizen’s right to liberty and security that prohibited invasion of one’s home and acquisition of evidence that might later be used to convict him of a crime also addressed privacy within marriage. In fact, the justices argued, “The concept of liberty is not so restricted… it embraces the right of marital privacy though that right is not mentioned explicitly [emphasis added] in the Constitution” and is based on “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights [which] have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”
This confusing language, which has no relationship whatsoever to what the Founding Fathers intended, gave married women permission to use the birth control pill. The Supreme Court literally created the “right to privacy” out of thin air.
We now know, beyond the shadow of a doubt, that not only did the Supreme Court literally make up the right that you claim gives you permission to use birth control, but the most popular form of birth control, the pill, can kill innocent preborn children. If there is a chance that human beings are going to be murdered, I am going to do everything in my power to help prevent that from happening. If you knew there was a chance that someone might poison your neighbor, don’t you think you would try to notify your neighbor and do as much as you could to help save a life?
Excellent, now we should work on taking away our rights to freedom of press, religion and all those other things we enjoy, since they too were created out of thin air.
Q: Is the pill dangerous to my health?
A: Absolutely! There are links between the birth control pill and breast cancer, cervical cancer, deep vein thrombosis (DVT), infertility, birth defects, blood clots, pelvic inflammatory disease, ectopic pregnancy, shrinking of the womb, stroke, weight gain and much more.
No no no no no! First off, if the pill is taken for more than 5 subsequent years it actually reduces your chances of getting certain types of cancer. No, it will not make your uterus shrink or your ovaries dry up and fall out, or anything else that will inhibit your ability to produce happy, healthy babies in the future. There are so many things wrong with this that I was literally stunned speechless for a moment. But, I'm not a medical professional. To debunk these lies you should go see a neutral healthcare professional. Do not go to a church funded hospital or doctor's office.
See what happens when you rely on blind faith to keep your institution going? You end up spouting out radical misinformation because you expect it to go unchallenged and then you look like a dumbass when someone actually looks at it rationally.