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Old 02-24-2008, 11:04 AM   #13 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by garysher;163271[COLOR=black
]If sexual abstinence is adopted as a method of birth control then both women AND men are "prevented" from having sex.
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No, the goal has never been to prevent men from having sex, the ultimate goal is to go back to the "good ole days", when there were "good girls" and "bad girls."

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But as abstinence is entirely voluntary, the word "prevent" is inaccurate and misleading. Like saying that a tea-totaller is "prevented" from drinking alcohol.


" 'Prevent' implies taking advance measures against something possible or probable" (Webster's Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary). RR believes in preventing women, or motivating women, from having sex by (1) abstinence-only sex ed, (2) denied access to BC, (3) denied access to abortion, (4) forcing women who fail the abstinence test to give children up for adoption by failing to provide sufficient financial aid.


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Whether people abstain from sex for religious or other reasons, one thing for sure - it's a 100% guaranteed way to avoid becoming pregnant!


Like other birth control methods, abstinence only works when it is applied FAITHFULLY, and abstinence seems to be one of those methods that is difficult to apply diligently.

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You seem to live in a dream world where women are perpetually controlled and victimised by men.


No, I want to prevent that nightmare world from ever returning.
The greatest danger to liberty lurks in the insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.

--Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis