If only one woman in the world dies from #abortion restriction none of us is free.
@IntegralDuChemin I don't understand. I also don't understand the position you're trying to imply with this. In favor of or against abortion restructions.
@stevenroose I'm furious that there are still women dying from this shit and even more that the Trump administration restricts access to contraception in poor countries only to gain evangelical votes. The Christian Right should finally go back to the swamp where it came from. No other developed country teaches abstinence instead of using contraception to prevent STI. No other country in the developed world has a teenage pregnancy rate this high and no other country sees climbing maternal mortality rates, lacks universal basic healthcare etc.
The richest nation in the world fails at delivering decent living conditions for much of its female population and exports this lunacy successfully to other countries. That's a complete desaster and even worse - it is preventable and completely against science.
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To be fair that isnt a very apt picture of america. While I do admit there are issues, legitimate ones, most of us are all taught in school in sex ed to use condoms, abstinence is rarely taught, and generally we are told to be responsible and understand the consequences of sex (and thus why contraception is imortant).
Even among the religious condoms are the norm. The stories you hear of teaching abstinence is an edge case, not the norm, among religious or otherwise.
@freemo @stevenroose According to the stats I read it got worse in the 90s and 2000s at least in the rural south.
@freemo @stevenroose I never claimed that. That would be quite Comstock lawy... - but I never found anyone in Germany or France who ever heard of intelligent design or ever had the idea of not using decent contraception. I have to admit though that I have been dating in the hacker scene ever since which might reduce the number of idiots. But apart from one mathematician who didn't know his size and would thus make a decent involuntary sperm donor my dudes were cool <3
I never met a creationist in america face to face either, not one who thinks the earth is literally 6000 years old. Yes they do exist but they are extremely rare.
@IntegralDuChemin
Well yea, it is a view point which isnt non-existant. But even in the south its not as pervasive as it might appear to an outsider. I never met anyone in the south who thinks condoms should be illegal.
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