Henry Morgantaler is a fucking hero. I will fight people on this.
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Also, access to cheap or free birth control helps.
Every single pregnancy should be planned and wanted.
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Or at least wanted.
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Damn right.
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It always confuses me that this is a controversial view, but it is. At least some of the pro-life/anti-choicers are also anti-birth control and for abstinence only sex ed, despite both leading to more unwanted pregnancies and more abortions.
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itās due to the āpro-life/forced-birthersā only caring about controlling women. They donāt care about the women or the babies.
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Itās just occured to me that this may be related to Australian history.
Sectarian strife in Australia used to be as bad as in Ireland, for similar reasons. Working class Irish Catholic convicts vs upper class English Protestant settlers.
However, during the Cold War, they called a truce. Conservative Catholics and Protestants united against socialism.
Before then, Australian sermons were heavily laced with aggressively antagonistic sectarianism. The other side werenāt just competing Christians, they were heretics inspired by demonic evil.
Those sermons became a bit awkward post-alliance, so they were quietly dropped. And they werenāt replaced with anything; now, the factions maintain their alliance by politely avoiding discussion of their historical theological differences.
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Thatās ironic, given the origins of Christianity:
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They gave up on that as soon as the Church acquired significant land holdings.
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If anyone gets the chance, read A World Lit Only By Fire by William Manchester. Very eye opening book. The Reformation was definitely needed, because the Catholic Church was completely corrupt and was stealing from poor villagers (by way of indulgences) so they could have orgies in the Vatican 25/8. I definitely have a renewed appreciation for Martin Luther, who basically became an outlaw for this cause but was far from the only one.
Also, strangely enough, because the Mass was in Latin and none of the common people understood Latin, the people retained their pagan beliefs because they didnāt understand Catholicism at all. Iāve known Latin American Catholics who were similar. Maybe thinking religion is one thing or the other is too simplisticā¦ Maybe they all blend together at some point.
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Catholicism on a lot of levels was never about religion, but power. Thatās why thereās so many rules.
Sadly, regular folk didnāt quite retain their pagan beliefs. The powers that be made sure of that.
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A debunking of myths. Please read the whole thread.
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That was definitely worth reading. And Iām stealing this:
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Oh, FFSā¦
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Womenās lives are not even worth saving? Well, at least theyāre saying it out loud now, where everyone can hear. Canāt say Iām surprised, just disgusted.
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Yeah, Iām glad these fucks canāt hide behind āLove Bothā rhetoric anymore.
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They are never about āpro-lifeā, just control the women.
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Oh, of course, but I absolutely know people who will dispute that fact and point to the āpro-lifersāā words as evidence. Whatever words they say, these actions are indisputable.
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