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Simon's campaign wouldn't say if the Los Angeles businessman and abortion opponent supported the increased access to emergency contraceptives. ``There are much more important topics,'' said Bob Taylor, a Simon spokesman.

Boy, what an inspiring pro-lifer Simon is. He sends his campaign minions out to dodge on the abortion issue for him. He could at least do it himself.

The contraceptive mentality, the pro-death culture that the liberals are perpetuating, are deceiving men and women into thinking that there are easy solutions to their "problems".

I'm sorry, Gophack, but you're wrong about contraceptives. If people are going to have sex, they need to use effective birth control to avoid pregnancy. I'm sorry, but America is never going to turn into a "Leave It To Beaver" family paradise where everybody is chaste until marriage. People screw around, have screwed around, and will screw around forever more. The only question is, are they going to continue to pay for their ticket to "ride" with the blood of unborn babies. If they can't be convinced or intimidated into not aborting their babies, then they need to use birth control that works or be sterilized. Unfortunately, the reproductive systems of these people have to be treated like loaded guns in the hands of children.

Now, the problem with the contraceptive revolution thus far has been that there has been no revolution at all. The birth control pill is virtually as useless as a condom at preventing pregnancy when you factor in average usage habits. It requires a lot of discipline -- a trait that happens to be totally at odds with the current "drink & debauch" culture that fuels so many abortion clinics. This is mostly why I am not a contraceptive crusader as of yet. However, there are several extremely advanced methods of contraception currently being developed that work by "hardening" the egg against invasion by a sperm. These new methods have no abortifacient "secondary" functions, since they are not hormonal, and they can be delivered via an injection that lasts for a year or more. When these new contraceptive vaccines become available, I will wholeheartedly support them because they are tailored perfectly for the irresponsible, undisciplined people who have abortions. You can look at it as taking the gun out of their hands...

I completely disagree with your argument.

Using your logic, we should make drugs legal because "they're going to do them anyway." Perhaps you support legalization of drugs, I don't know.

Since the availability of contraceptives has become widespread, society has collapsed:

*There are over 4 million abortions every year.
*Children are having sex at younger and younger ages.
*The divorce rate sky-rocketed.
*AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases have spread rapidly.
*Suicide rates have gone up.
*Children being raised in single-parent households have skyrocketed.
*More women are infertile, more women are developing breast cancer, and more women are suffering from the long-term emotional effects of sexual promiscuity and abortion.

Now, there are likely a lot of reasons that the above have happened, including sex education, liberal entitlement programs, and a turning away from basic moral values. HOWEVER, contraceptives make it "easy" to think of ourselves first, do it now, do what feels good, and if they fail, fix it in the morning.

Contraceptives demean women because women become a vessel for sex. While sex can be a wonderful experience between man and wife -- and sometimes downright fun -- sex can also be demeaning, demoralizing and exploited.

Just because people are going to "do it" doesn't mean we have to support that mentality. We need to change the mentality, change the attitudes of people. This isn't impossible, but it's not going to be easy. We have nearly 40 years of the sexual revolution ... and it's going to take nearly as long to reverse it.