In a perfect world, every woman of child-bearing age would only have consensual sex in the optimum circumstances - when she is emotionally and financially prepared to handle any and all possible personal or physical consequences, with a man with whom there are no secrets and perfectly aligned expectations, using, if she does not want to get pregnant, whatever form of contraception she prefers, and knowing, should that contraception fail her, that she has access to medical or surgical abortion, or that her partner will be on board if she decides to keep the pregnancy, and that no fiscal or other disaster will befall them in the interim, that the foetus will be healthy—Read the whole thing here.
But, of course, we don't live in a perfect world. We live in a world of broken hearts – and broken condoms. And so we need to deal with the complexity that accompanies imperfection.
Sex Is Messy
I've got a new piece up at Comment is Free America, "Sex is messy," about what being pro-choice really means:
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