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- From: allen@tessi.com (Allen Warren)
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.061830.29495@tessi.com>
- Organization: Test Systems Strategies, Inc., Beaverton, Oregon
- References: <Jan.15.07.43.01.1993.21083@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1jp6odINNij@gilligan.East.Sun.COM> <14044@optilink.COM>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 06:18:30 GMT
- Lines: 43
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- cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
-
- >In article <1jp6odINNij@gilligan.East.Sun.COM>, mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori) writes:
- >> In article <13960@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- ># #Really? Birth control was effectively unavailable in this country
- ># #to teenagers in the 1950s. It was difficult or impossible for even
- ># #married couples to get, until the 1960s. What happened to the abortion
- ># #rate after birth control became available? It went up dramatically,
- ># #as did the illegitimacy rate. Now, I won't claim that one caused
- ># #the other, because I'm quite sure that's not true. But your claim,
- ># #that there is a "*direct* inverse correlation" is demonstrably
- ># #false.
- ># #
- ># #Birth control education, pills, condoms, etc., are readily available
- ># #throughout the U.S. now. When are we going to see the unwanted
- ># #pregnancy rate drop to the level it was at in 1960, when these
- ># #items were rare, or usually illegal?
- ># #
- >#
- ># Um... Just a thought...
- >#
- ># You're neglecting the fact that the sexual revolution took place
- ># during this time period, aren't you?
- >#
- ># -- Mike
-
- >What caused the sexual revolution? The availability of birth
- >control pills, and an abolition of laws restricting access to
- >birth control. So why has the number of unwanted pregnancies
- >gone UP? This is quite the opposite of what you would expect,
- >isn't it?
-
- From the history books and data I've read, the sexual revolution was
- a concurrent event with the advent of birth control. They both
- arrived on the scene at the same time, although the rumblings of
- sexual revolution started in the early to middle 50's, with the
- boiling point coming at the start of the new decade. Historians
- who studied the 50's and 60's with objectivity have pointed out
- that the legalization of birth control was a natural fallout of
- the sexual revolution, rather than the legalization of birth
- control in itself causing the sexual revolution.
-
- allen
-