Reply #124: I've been saying for months, years... [View All]

[Warren DeMontague]

to everyone who will listen, that:

The so-called "Human Life Amendment" as written and advocated in the GOP National Platform would criminalize many forms of birth control, including the pill, by defining life as universally beginning at conception and receiving- from that moment of conception- protections under the 14th amendment.

Most major "Pro-life" Groups in the USA are, universally, opposed to contraception. Many voters who consider themselves "pro-life" are not aware of this fact.

The widespread opposition to contraception, and anti-contraception agenda, is a tremendous wedge issue against anti-choicers, which is why they go to great lengths, at times, to conceal this part of their belief system to "swing voters", using red herring issues like so-called "partial birth abortion", instead.

If you delve deeply into the legal "thought" papers of the anti-choice crowd, it doesn't take long to figure out that the real judicial goal is not just the overturning of Roe v. Wade, but also the overturning of Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1966 Decision that a) said married couples had a right to use contraception, and b) established the "right to privacy" that conservatives hate so much.