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Twenty years ago pro-choice advocates warned that once the abortion was lost or nearly lost the religious right would come after contraception. And that's exactly what they're doing. And there is only one explanation for going after the pill, condoms, diaphrams, the morning-after pill and spermicides. These people want to control the sex lives of their fellow citizens, and they'll use the law to do it. That means they have not one iota of credibility. None, zip, zero. They are nothing more or less than theo-fascists. And they must fought and fought hard.
Men have a stake in this fight, for once abortion and contraception are illegal, how long do you think it will be before they go after vasectomies? Emboldened by their previous legal victories, they will drop all pretense of the issue being about "the children" and simply state that vasectomies - and tubal ligations, to be sure - allow people to have sex "without consequences" and so must likewise be outlawed.
