Reply #3: oops, another quibble

[iverglas]

If you think ... women use it as a means of birth control, ...

Women do use abortion as birth control. Abortion prevents birth. That's the purpose of birth control.

Obviously, abortion isn't *contraception*, and many people, sometimes for their own idiosyncratic reasons and sometimes out of genuine concern for women's well-being, would prefer that women use contraception to prevent pregnancy rather than rely on abortion to terminate pregnancy.

But it still, fundamentally, is not my or anyone else's business how a woman chooses to control when and whether she has children. (Apart from it being my general business as a member of humanity and a human society and community, and specifically as a woman and feminist in a context in which women are vulnerable, to try to ensure that people have the options and information that enable them to act in their own best interests, I hope it would be understood.)

Suggesting that thinking that women use abortion as a means of birth control is demeaning to women is itself a negative comment on women who do use abortion as a means of birth control, and I like to stay away from negative judgments about other women and their choices.

I'm feeling a bit like how I felt about Humanist Manifesto II, which contained a whole load of junk about things like people's unusual sexual preferences and activities that really has nothing to do with the fundamental principles of secular humanism, some of which I disagreed with for very good humanist reasons. Micro-managing of the philosophy tends to rule out people who should be ruled in -- whose disagreements are within the framework of the philosophy, not contrary to it.

So ...

if this seems TOO MUCH, don't hesitate to let me know.

Here ya go. ;) I'd prune it a bit, down to principles rather than practice.