Speaking of community standards, Christina Page of RHRealityCheck.org puts in a single paragraph what ought to be the foundation of all discussion of contraception policy in America.

Most American families want (and have) two children meaning women spend about seven years, on average, getting and being pregnant and about 23 years preventing pregnancy. Planning a pregnancy leads to dramatic declines in both maternal mortality and infant mortality. Indeed, the countries on earth with the lowest maternal and infant mortality rates are those with the greatest access to and use of contraception. Those with the highest death rates are countries that deny women and families access to family planning—many are nations that took Saletan’s route and simply ignored the fanatics into power.

Read the quote in context here.

Approximate years of fertility: thirty years
Pregnant or trying to be: seven years
Therefore trying not to be: twenty three years.

What’s really irritating is the pharmacists in question are just as likely to have two children as anyone else so…

Interview after interview suggests that what “pharmacists for life” are really worried about is maintaining a “community standard” they see as somehow declining or debased somewhere else.

You see the same effect in Planned Parenthood and abortion-services provider clinics as well — conservatives coming in insisting “they’re different” because their pregnancy is different because they’re not “those people” who have… what… recreational abortions?

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