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by cycomanic 1489 days ago
The issue with that intellectual consistency, is that the same people oppose sexual education and contraception which has been shown to significantly reduce abortions (let's not even talk about all the cases where they support killing of born people). If they do not support sexual education and contraception, they are not intellectually honest, they are not pro-life, but want to push a specific world view.
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I don't think I've ever met a person that believes contraception should be illegal, I'm sure they're out there though. I'd be willing to bet that set of people is far, far smaller than those that think abortion is wrong, and I wouldn't call contraception particularly controversial or opposition to contraception a mainstream view by any means.

Sexual education is another topic, a lot of people oppose it to one degree or another, we all have ideas about what a kid should learn about and at what age, it isn't that unreasonable to say that a parent should have the final say in their children's education, but with that should come more responsibility which it seems many parents don't want to take on.