Savage Love
May. 18th, 2006 12:03 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jbaileyDan Savage writes in his column this week,
I have trouble imagining what people are thinking. A world where couples don't have sex? Can you imagine how much fighting there would be?
Okay, okay, so that's not the point. But with articles like Chicago economist links abortion to falling crime rates, it's incredibly distressing to see another attempt at taking away freedoms. While things like birth control and abortion are not in immediate risk here in Canada, it's hard to predict how long it would take for our our current Conservative leadership to start entertaining those thoughts.
I'm all for a principled discussion on sex and sexuality. But why don't people ever consider the concept that providing more tools to people is better than providing fewer?
The American Taliban doesn't think married heterosexual couples should be able to use birth control. If you care about your own freedom - not just your right to have premarital sex, but your right to decide whether, when, and how many children you're going to have—you need to read "The War On Contraception."
I have trouble imagining what people are thinking. A world where couples don't have sex? Can you imagine how much fighting there would be?
Okay, okay, so that's not the point. But with articles like Chicago economist links abortion to falling crime rates, it's incredibly distressing to see another attempt at taking away freedoms. While things like birth control and abortion are not in immediate risk here in Canada, it's hard to predict how long it would take for our our current Conservative leadership to start entertaining those thoughts.
I'm all for a principled discussion on sex and sexuality. But why don't people ever consider the concept that providing more tools to people is better than providing fewer?
