Reply #137: I am NOT off base, sir. If you read the materials of the major "pro-life" organizations in the USA,

[Warren DeMontague]

they- to the one- argue that use of the birth control pill, which they consider to be an abortifacent, is morally equivalent to abortion. The HLA plank in the GOP platform; the one that would by fiat grant rights under the 14th amendment to single cells- would necessitate the criminalization of the birth control pill.

Add to that the fact- and this is a FACT, sir- that the SCOTUS decision the "Religious Right" has in it's sights even moreso than Roe v. Wade is Griswold v. Connecticut- you know, the one which said married couples had a "right to privacy" pertaining to the use of contraception, I think it's pretty clear where all this is headed.

Beyond that, the "Religious Right" as it stands today certainly DOES contain a large conservative Catholic influence. The anti-choice movement, for instance, is driven by large numbers of Catholics as well as Protestants.

I don't know, when you get into the loonies who want to institute "Biblical Law", what particular "sect" they all fall into, but I do know that the anti-contraception jihad is NOT limited solely to "Catholics":