(Community Matters) Are you fricking kidding me? I respect that there are two sides to the argument on choice, but anyone who wants to roll back a woman’s or man’s access to contraception is a out of touch and too radical to be taken seriously. Of course any families can choose not to use contraception. If you’re unfamiliar with the gains in women’s rights, education levels, the overwhelming benefits to society, to families, as a result of the introduction of reliable contraception, then you really should read up.
In retrospect, the invention of contraceptives was as fundamental for the evolution of humankind as the invention of the wheel.
I love the idea of using this as a political wedge issue.
While I’m abstaining from partisan politics, I’m simply incapable & unwilling to abstain from arguments about individual rights. I regret not speaking up early in the Planned Parenthood/Komen debacle, and admit some of my reluctance was probably shaped by the fact that so many progressive women were willing to give Texas legislators a walk for voting against marriage equality and for the Tx Defense of Marriage constitutional amendment. This left a deep, unhealed scar – scariest, most vulnerable I’ve ever felt since realized many who I thought were staunch allies were willing to look the other way. Literally brought visions of their doing so if anyone ever drove around rounding up queers.
Well, some did stand up for us, and I’m gonna focus on that solidarity as well as the assumption that the others now realize they lost their way.
Community Matters 
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn’t a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
—-Pastor Martin Niemoller, ca. 1940