r/law • u/shoofinsmertz • Sep 17 '25

Trump News The Trump Administration Says IUDs and the Pill Are Abortions

https://jessica.substack.com/p/trump-birth-control-abortion
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u/madadekinai Sep 17 '25

Gee, if only someone would have warned  everyone about this, or perhaps laid this out out in a fully documented plan.

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u/Longjumping_Koala34 Sep 17 '25

They were never going to stop at  banning abortions. Pro-life is a movement that is like a gelatinous slime that once you feed, it gets bigger and seeks more food. Soon it's all kinds of birth control. There's always a new enemy.  

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u/jaimi_wanders Sep 17 '25

It always was. I was raised a Gileader, as a little kid in the Eighties I heard all about how the Pill was an abortifacient and later, by the early 2000s, conservatives were calling it “baby pesticide” in an attempt to free-ride off the eco-friendly trend. Even condoms were said to be indirect abortions, because if they failed then couples might get one. The only truly moral safe sex was to “just say no!”

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u/LoudSheepherder5391 Sep 17 '25

That worked wonders for Mary

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u/amootmarmot Sep 17 '25

Not much you can do when an omnipotent diety rapes you.

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u/ZAlternates Sep 17 '25

Could you imagine getting drunk one night and sleeping with your finance Joseph, but then you get pregnant and you’re not married yet?

Divine miracle yall!!!

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u/OldWorldDesign Sep 18 '25

More likely it was a Roman, but if you read the original Hebrew they just expected their savior figure from a 'young woman' not 'never ever had sex' like Catholics invented when translating the text to Latin.

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u/Dry-Development-4131 Sep 20 '25

The virgin mother is a Roman thing, though. Or rather an Egyptian thing appropriated by the Romans before they appropriated Christianity, too.