Not Birth Control, Woman Control

If you have any doubt at all that the anti-choice movement is all about controlling women, then ask yourself why it would want to campaign against the Pill, a safe and easy-to-use contraceptive, with a low failure rate?

I mean, you would think that, in order to avoid abortions, these people would want to avoid unwanted pregnancies.

You would think.

But no.

Which is why, back by unpopular demand, is The Pill Kills! 

On Saturday, June 6, pro-lifers across the country will be participating in the largest protest ever against the birth control pill and other birth control products. Last year, participants across the United States shared the facts on exactly how the pill kills babies. This year, we will expose the sordid details surrounding the tragic effects these chemicals have on women. We will emphasize the truth about how the pill kills women.

Join American Life League and protest the pill. Help us unmask the truth and hopefully save lives. You can do this by having a presence outside of doctors’ offices, pharmacies, Planned Parenthood clinics and other family planning facilities, or even out on the sidewalk at a busy intersection. Wherever it is – help get the word out!

We must educate American women because so many people are telling them, “Taking the pill is simple, safe and convenient.”

Oh, it's not enough to bomb abortion clinics, stalk medical staff and assassinate OB/GYNs such as Dr. George Tiller. Now we have to harass pharmacists and their customers.

All this on the 44th anniversary of the Griswold v. Connecticut in the US, that terrible, tragic day that the Supreme Court decided that married women have a constitutional right to privacy that allows them to obtain contraception. The horror!

(You young'uns might take note that that was not that long ago.)

Here's We Move to Canada on the matter last year:

Griswold is, without a doubt, one of the most important steps towards women's equality and freedom in US history. It is at least as important as Roe v. Wade. Leaving aside complicated Constitutional questions about the right to privacy, the short story is that Griswold legalized birth control, or made it illegal for a state to stop a married woman - a married woman! - from obtaining birth control. That opened the door for other important decisions that expanded reproductive rights, and so, women's equality.

Here in the beginning of the 21st Century, it may be difficult for us to relate to what The Pill represents. For a woman to be able to control her reproduction - in advance, without involving anyone else in the decision-making, in complete privacy, by herself for herself - changed everything.

Indeed it did. Reliable contraception gave women freedom.It liberated them from child-bearing, gave them ownership of their bodies and lives, and made them less dependent on men for financial support.

And that's what the anti-woman terrorists hate most of all. It's not about the little babies being ripped from their wombs, believe me. Because if it were, they'd love the child as much as the fetus.

So, the pill kills! But who does it kill?

Zygotes?

Because the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists redefined conception to mean implantation rather than the joining of sperm and egg in 1965, birth control pill manufactures and distributors have been able to promote the pill as strictly "contraceptive," despite its abortifacient capacities.

The site notes that linguistic manipulation has led to big business for pill distributors.

"Planned Parenthood and other organizations cover up the reality that the birth control pill can, in fact, kill a preborn baby. They have a vested interest in lying to young women because they exploit them."

"Planned Parenthood brainwashes young girls by telling them that the pill merely prevents pregnancy, when the fact is that the pill can act after fertilization, which is when pregnancy begins, and kill the preborn baby."

Oh hell, let's back that up even more. Every time I have sex and get my period, a pre-born baby dies!

Or is the concern for women's health?

The birth control pill and other birth control products can and have killed women not only in the United States, but all over the world. Often times the pill leads to cardiovascular problems which can result in death.

Studies show that most women who have died from the use of the pill or other birth control products have died from blood clots, heart attacks, and pulmonary embolisms. As you can see on our side effects link, the pill also causes many other serious problems such as cancer, pelvic inflammatory disease, depression and much more.

"Other birth control products?''

Now I almost choked on a condom once, a near death experience to be sure. But I can't say that any  women I know have died from contraception.

This is not to say it doesn't happen -- albeit rarely. But women do die in childbirth and from pregnancy-related complications. And, if they can't seek safe and legal ways to terminate pregnancies, they die from back alley abortions as well.

As April Reign points out, the pill killers are LIARS. In the US the maternal mortality rate is soaring and guess what? The Pill is perfectly safe.

Why do ALL and other Pro-Lie organizations continue to fabricate dangers associated with women taking control of their own bodies? Why do they disregard the actual dangers associated with pregnancy and childbirth?

Because to do so would significantly interfere with their agenda to erode women’s rights. Note their concern for the children ends upon birth. Breath for most of us signifies the beginning of life. For the Pro-Lie crowd breath represents another brat in the world taking their share of the resources. This is the hypocrisy they refuse admit. While clamouring for more babies they are at the same time voting for policies which erode the resources that would provide those children with basic needs.

Pro-lie. Yeah. I like that.

Talk about having your agenda exposed, eh?

Comments

[Rachel Marsden]

i can't keep up with this...does da pill kills de bebeh too now? izzit a bebeh if it's an egg and i have a hysterectomy? izzat mass murder?
can we just define a kid as something we can actually spank and call it a day already?
i have an IUD. does this mean i have a gun in my uterus?
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
PS - I'm about as conservative as one might get...and i really don't get any of this "thinking".

[Carly]

I wouldn't be surprised if they came up with a campaign saying that virginity or abstaining from sex kills babies too!

[Karen]

Insanity! What's next?

[littlemisssunshine]

Damned if we do, damed if we don't. It amazes me that these anti-choicers are hiding behind false concern for unborn children. They will only be truly happy when their REAL agenda is realized - condemning women to slavery. According to these wack-jobs if I take the pill (does this apply to condoms, IUDs, spermicide as well??) I am a baby-killer. If I don't use birth control and choose to have an abortion I am a baby-killer. If I get pregnant and choose to raise a child on my own I had better not ask for any tax-payer assistance or else I am a lazy, worthless, system-using s*ut. So my only route to salvation is a life of servitude to the male species and being a slave to my own body. Wow!
It may also be prudent to remind the young uns that it wasn't all that long ago women could not own property or vote either!

[Catboreal]

There actually is a campaign against what the Christian fascists call 'willful childlessness' in the States:

http://www.albertmohler.com/commentary_print.php?cdate=2005-08-15.

Don't know how organized it is yet, but if they win on the abortion front, and the contraception front, I'll bet this will become their next battleground.

[L-girl]

Great post! Thanks for including me.

I always say that the anti-choice movement is all about controlling women. How convenient of them to prove my point with their Pill Kills campaign.