Anti-bubba,
The issues of abortion and birth control are often one and the same. Except for Catholics who oppose birth control for its own sake (which is a seperate issue), anti-abortionists only oppose those forms of birth control that we believe kills a fertilized egg, which is a human being. This is called "consistency."
Hunter Rose,
You keep upping the emotional ante on your lines of argument. Do you think I or my arguments will dissolve into a puddle of pity and tell you that murdering your own child is ok for you, since your life is so hard? Or do you wish to make me, and my position, appear pitiless? You question my compassion because I would not allow you to murder an infant. A very sad trick your heart is playing on you.
I do not feel baited one bit. Am I to shrink in embarassment that it is your wife we've discussed? Why? Do you think I am ashamed to see my beliefs affect the lives of others? I hope I am not so shallow. I have blocked my "most fundamental drive" for 28 years, until I married, and I know how awful it is to contemplate life without that. Even so, sex is not a right, nor a physical need. But this is not about my moral stance, sir, but the life of your own flesh and blood. It is about a concept basic to society and to morality - the protection of innocent life, especially that of infants. This is certainly not something anti-abortionists have dreamt up to complicate your life.
Again, you blame anti-abortionists for the hard facts of life. Pregnancy is not a condition we can simply switch off, and sex is how it occurs. If every legislative goal that I had came to pass, I would not be forcing this condition on your wife. It is not my fault, and I cannot do anything about it. But I can attempt to keep this from being a justification for murdering innocent children. Perhaps murder seems a strong word. So be it. This is a life-and-death issue, and I must call a spade what it is.