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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]These consequences of contraception were forecast when it became widely available:

--A general lowering of morality in society 
--A general disregard for the physical and psychological health of women by men
--Coercive use of "family planning" by governments and societies
--Dehumanization of persons[/quote]

1) So we're less moral now than, say, Victorian England, where there were tens of thousands of prostitutes in London alone? 
2) So you're saying that men were nicer 100 years ago than today? 
3) Outside of China where is this being done? Sex-selection abortions are merely applications of traditional morality using modern tools (ultrasound/abortion). 
4) So we dehumanize on the level of say Sparta, where unwanted/apparently weak kids were left out to die? Infanticide has been the norm for most of human history. [/quote]

1) Child labor.  Slavery.  Legal rape by spouse.  Yes, damn our lowered moral standards!
2) The field of "Women's Health" didn't exist until less than a hundred years ago.  Fifty years ago, if you had breast cancer, the treatment was you died.
3) As PP said, there might be 1-2 totalitarian regimes where this is so, but that also predates birth control.
4) You'll have to expand on this one.  Human society seems to have had a long history of "de-humanizing persons".  Only someone with an agenda would claim this started in the 60s.

You sound like you have no real grasp of history at all.[/quote]

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