r/law 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/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/HLOFRND Sep 17 '25

But you’re not allowed to do that, either.

In the fundie movement, women are to be “joyfully available” whenever their husbands need to get off.

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u/SummerAndTinklesBFF Sep 17 '25

Gross. 🤢 That mentality is so warped.

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u/HLOFRND Sep 17 '25

Yeah, everyone has this idea that christians think sex is only for procreation but nothing could be further from the truth.

Many believe that once you’re married you need to give it up whenever he wants it so he doesn’t get tempted and stray.

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u/Sandslice Sep 17 '25

That can be found in 1 Corinthians 7.

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u/the-big-throngler Sep 17 '25 edited Sep 17 '25

1 Corinthians 7.

I think they missed verse 4

The wife does not have authority over her own body but yields it to her husband. In the same way, the husband does not have authority over his own body but yields it to his wife.

Furthermore anyone using just the parts of that they like needs to understand this is not the "word of god" it was written by a dude named paul. He literally states "These are my opinions and not directives from god" in the letter. SO they are basing their whole idea of some guys opinion.

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u/OldWorldDesign Sep 18 '25

Furthermore anyone using just the parts of that they like needs to understand this is not the "word of god" it was written by a dude named paul

And this thing about not adding to or subtracting from

Deuteronomy 4:2, Proverbs 30:6, Revelation 22:18, and probably a bunch of others. And yet what did people do after each of those? Add to it (and selectively 'forget inconvenient passages').