if it was just "abortion", I might actually believe them...

[acroyear]

But it's not. It is about control.  There is no ABSOLUTELY NO Biblical justification for this.

Pharyngula: They have a conscientious need to control your ovaries:

If you want to see the consequences of the recent wave of attempts to endorse "provider conscience rules", in which health care providers are permitted to freely exercise their whims and biases in providing clients and patients their services, read this story. As usual, it's all about controlling the reproductive choices of women: we've had politicians blocking access to Plan B contraception; laws that would allow doctors to deny care if it was against their religious beliefs; and pharmacists who refuse to fill birth control prescriptions. Beyond simply passive denial of giving a patient what they need, though, we now have gone to the next step: wingnuts actively removing birth control devices against the patient's will. Nurse practitioner Sylvia Olona of the Presbyterian Health Services Rio Rancho Family Health Center in New Mexico has been taking it upon herself to yank out the IUDs of patients in her care.

It really has become clear to me: If the only way to express "Love Your God" is to show hate in any form to your neighbor, you're not loving God.

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It's not just control they care about: it's control of *women.* A woman who decide when (or even if) she will have children is in control of her destiny in a way that has traditionally belong solely to the patriarchy. The conventional wisdom amongst these people really boils down to undoing every single thing that the first and second waves of feminism accomplished, from biological self-determination to (in many cases) the vote. These people will not be truly satisfied until every single woman on the planet is *forced* to live by the Prairie Muffin Manifesto. http://buriedtreasurebooks.com/PrairieMuffinManifesto.php This pabulum is not a joke to these people; I had this very thing slapped in my face just a couple of weeks ago and was told that I didn't know how to live like a "real woman" because I didn't want kids and didn't think any woman should be forced to have them because there was ::gasp:: satisfaction to be had absent being Suzy Homemaker to some patriarchal git.