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Sunday, 08 October 2006

Pure Ugliness

Read excerpts from e-mails sent by (probably Christian) anti-abortionists who need to be Hellenized or sterilized.  [via Majikthise]  Perhaps some of these neo-Nazi skinheads can be identified via their e-mail headers?  It'd be great fun outing them to their fellow non-denominationalists who could then give a special altar call for their murderously raging comrades in arms, lay hands upon them, and exorcise their demons.  That solution would, of course, be just as good as the worthless solutions this sort of person proposes to decrease the number of obtained abortions: from the mild "abstinence only education" to the extreme "bomb a clinic" variety. 

Empirical research proves that the best known way to minimize the number of obtained abortions is to provide comprehensive sex-ed programs and unfettered access to contraceptives and the morning after pill.  There is also no reasonable objection to contraception, because empirical research also shows that up to 50% of conceptions result in natural abortions, and philosophical argument suggests (what will likely be scientifically demonstrated in the near future) that the rhythm method results in vastly more embryonic death than the pill.  (I am obviously assuming that it is unreasonable to insist that it is morally permissible for couples to have sex only for the purpose of procreation at the times that conception is most likely or while pregnant or otherwise infertile.  And note that, if you're going to bite this bullet, you'll have to stop having sex as soon as in vitro fertilization becomes more reliable than sex the natural way.)

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