The Right never rests in the constant attack on our bodies. I don’t support their views on abortion or the whole idea that anyone can mandate what a woman does with her body.

I found this article from The Chicago Tribune and I think that it is important. Gatherings like the one described in this article are frightening to me because these people are serious and they get the word out. I hear them when they say “life begins at conception.” I don’t agree but I hear them. That is their belief and in my opinion, it is based on religious dogma and ultimately on an ancient patriarchal need to control all things (which explains why these groups and movements always seem to be lead by men and/or religious leaders).

One of their religious leaders explains:

“Chemical contraception doesn’t prevent abortions, it causes abortion,” he (Rev. Thomas Euteneuer) said in an interview. “If we believe life begins at the moment of conception, we have to defend it against [this] chemical attack.”

However, there is some hope:

Unlike abortion, birth control is part of the daily lives of most women of childbearing age in America. A stunning 98 percent of women 15 to 44 who have had sex report using at least one method of contraception; almost 40 million women of that age use birth control, according to the Guttmacher Institute.

Meanwhile, 91 percent of Americans agreed that couples should “have access to birth-control options” in a new Harris Interactive poll of 1,001 likely voters, conducted in July.

So, based on those figures, it is hard to imagine that these women will wake up one day and decide that contraception is the root of all evil and flush their pills. However, what bothers me is this:

“It is clear there is a major rethinking going on among evangelicals on this issue, especially among young people” disenchanted with the sexual revolution, said Rev. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. “There is a real push back against the contraceptive culture now.”