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- From: mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Date: 26 Jan 1993 09:32:00 -0500
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- In article <14044@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
- >#
- ># 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?
- >--
-
- Well, I'm not so sure I agree with your definition of the cause.
-
- I think it was more that women began to assert themselves, and
- both birth control and the sexual revolution were offshoots of
- the feminist movement, among other things going on at the time
- (social upheaval, dissent over war, anti-establishmentism).
-
- Why have they gone UP? Well, perhaps because people aren't taught
- enough about their bodies, and don't understand how to use birth
- control properly (or in some cases, at all).
-
- I'm not really sure what I'd expect... My point is that legali-
- zation of substances on your personal "Evil list" aren't the
- only reason the unwanted pregnancy rate has gone up. You're
- neglecting alot of social and cultural events that happened in
- close proximity to these events.
-
- -- Mike
-
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