Reply #98: this is true

[seventythree]

I have long advocated that the truth of the pill be told -- for two reasons --1) women who have strong religious convictions about abortion will suffer anguish if they are not told the truth and take the pill; they have a right to informed consent 2) for many anti-choicers, the specter of having the only convenient and most effective form of birth control banned, will send them right over to the pro-choice position. Suddenly they will "get" what it means to be able to have the control of one's reproduction/body/intimate relationships NOT in the hands of the government. I can't tell how passionately I argued this point with pro-choice advocacy groups in the 1980's. They worried that the truth would endanger the free access to the pill, and really didn't care if the anti-choice women knew they were aborting against their will. I found this attitude shameful.