Wednesday 14 March 2012

Controlling Interests

It would be hard to imagine a more unlikely historical moment than this one for birth control to become a matter of outraged political controversy. For starters, there is the statistic that ninety-nine per cent of all American women who have had sex have used contraception at some point in their lives . . . When birth control is uncoupled from the religious-freedom argument - and when conservatives start talking in ugly ad-hominem language, like Limbaugh’s, or clueless anachronistic language, like Santorum’s - women, in particular, do not respond well...
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