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Yes, good analysis. I was gobsmacked when I started meeting Baptists who said birth control is a sin. I grew up knowing that Catholics taught this (although more and more I was meeting Catholic women who used birth control) but at one time Protestants held themselves to be a little--morally superior?--because they believed in deciding the number of children they wanted and using birth control accordingly. There's hubris in that, of course, but I knew the ground had shifted when my office secretary asked me for a donation to support her pastor's family of 10 children, and I joked, "I'll buy him a box of condoms" and she was angered and informed me that God was displeased by birth control. That was 17 years ago, and it IS backlash against women's rights, and it's gotten worse. Playing a long game is right.

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When I was an escort at the Feminist Womens Health Clinic young women would frequently come in with their toddlers AND with their boyfriends/husbands to babysit the toddlers while they had their abortions. They had made a sad but rational decision that they could not afford another child right then. I often wished I could make a little video of them playing with their kids and show it to the screeching protestors, with their dark imaginings of "what goes on in there."

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