Reply #22: Birth Control = Unnatural?

[Modem Butterfly]

I feel there's been a movement among conserva-freaks for awhile to stigmatize contraception and scare women into not using birth control. For example, see the rather outrageous claim that the pill causes abortion. I know that when I went on Depo-Provera I heard some of the silliest knee-jerk stuff from my friends and acquaintences. One woman warned me that her sister had gone on Depo about the same time their mother had died and she was so depressed she couldn't stop crying. Gee, that wouldn't have anything to do with her mother dying now would it?

That being said, contraception is much more than the pills and condoms. However, thanks to abstinence education and the continued harassment of Planned Parenthood, I believe a growing number of young women are ignorant of their choices.