"Pro-life"? It's about control of women.

[David Horn]

(10-22-2019, 07:39 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:

(10-22-2019, 10:49 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: Eventually we won't need abortions since we'll have effective biotechnological means of switching one's fertility off if you're not interesting in having a baby. Condoms and pills are cumbersome, but imagine giving women a possibility to turn off ovulation. This sort of stuff is described in the Culture novels by IM Banks (Boomer) and also hinted at in Last and First Men by Olaf Stapledon (Missionary). During next 2T it might become real.

We already have a morning-after abortion pill, I thought. If made widely available, it might take the issue off the table.

Note: all three of us are male, so our opinions are less valid than a woman's.  We'll never have to deal with this issue on a visceral basis.  That said, I'll still comment as an observer.

Most of the birth control and abortion issues center on morality of doing or not doing something to prevent or end a pregnancy.  Neither situation is amenable to technology.  Both require emotional support, making counseling the primary mandate.  That is not likely to change.