The “reducing abortions” hostage situation

American Papist passes on quotes indicating that the plan for reducing the need for abortion is through contraceptives. Many of us suspected that and were merely waiting for Tyrano-Anarchy, Inc. to make it explicit. What we’ve got here is a hostage situation. The “reduced abortion” crowd is holding a gun to the unborn and saying, “drop your objection to contraception or the unborn gets it!”

When I posted that analogy at AmP, I got accused of “extremist hyperbole” and was asked to elaborate. So I said that at first I was under the impression that the reduced abortion marketing scam was based on the error that abortion is caused by poverty or lack of social services as opposed to the reality that it is caused by people having sex and not wanting children (as Jeff Miller put it). Now we have recently seen Kmiec and others in the Pro-Obama camp repeating numerous times a fundamental error: that as long as a contraceptive is non-abortifacient, it is morally acceptable. Tain’t so, and it is becoming clear that the official policy is that contraceptives are a main ingredient in the reduced-abortion ploy. Thus, they are setting it up so that if serious pro-lifers want in on reducing abortions, they must drop moral objections to contraceptives. Non-Catholic secular messianics are for contraceptives because they have always thought that children were the enemy of sex and that there were few troubles in the world that couldn’t be fixed with contraceptives. Certain Catholics are for them because they’ve always hated Humanae Vitae and Paul VI for not allowing Church teaching to be determined by committee, and any opportunity to put faithful Catholics (and anyone else opposed to them) in a bind is a good one. Thus, my hostage analogy is apt.