Reply #30: Absolutely. Hallelujah. Unauthorized sex must be punished [View All]

[Hekate]

The ultra-conservatives are in a tough spot.

On the one hand, abortion is evil and contraception (in their pointy heads) is the same as abortion. So those blastocysts must develop into babies and those babies must be born.

On the other hand, out of wedlock babies are irrefutable evidence of unauthorized sex by women, which is sinful.

What to do, what to do.

They really want to turn back the clock half a century and ensure both social and legal sanctions against unauthorized sex, and they want to define what authorized sex is.

Say, here's a good one: about 1959, when I was in grade school, a family across the street took in a young woman whose boyfriend not only dumped her after impregnating her, it turned out he had already played that game with several other naive girls. She decided her best bet (considering there was no safe legal abortion, and considering she didn't want to give up her firstborn to adoption) was to have the baby where she was, then move back to her home town and tell her family and friends her "husband" had "died." Too bad. When she was handed the birth certificate, it was stamped "Illegitimate."

I still shudder.

Oh yeah, the good old days.

Hekate