No matter what your political, religious, or personal beliefs are, Plan B and birth control are NOT the same thing as abortion in any way shape or form.
You can be anti-contraception. You can be anti-abortion. But you CAN'T equate the two.
According to Business Insider, Judge Brett Kavanaugh referred to contraception as "abortion-inducing drugs" and I am utterly horrified.
Female anatomy truly is not that complicated.
The use of birth control PREVENTS sperm from fertilizing an egg. Plan B also acts as a defense against sperm in case the form of contraception a couple is using fails.
Abortion is terminating a pregnancy.
Are we clear?
Birth control and Plan B defend the egg from getting fertilized; therefore the woman does NOT become impregnated.
This is not terminating a pregnancy. This is preventing a pregnancy from happening in the first place. So please Brett Kavanaugh, take a sex ed course.
You don't have to be pro-choice to understand the basic workings of the female reproductive system.
You don't have to use birth control, and you can be against abortion. But by trying to say that both are one in the same is a dangerous falsehood that could bring about detrimental consequences for women.
Women deserve to have access to birth control so the woman AND the man in the relationship can have a secure way to plan for a family if and when they become ready.
By saying birth control is a form of abortion; you are risking women's rights to decide when the right time to bring life into this world is for them by bringing it into the political conversation to be made illegal.
Look around you. Look at your sister, mom, girlfriend, aunt, cousin, and/or daughter. Would you want to force any of them to become pregnant when they are not ready?
And no, telling them to simply not have sex is not ok, especially when you don't say the same thing to the men in your life.
Sometimes it seems that so many people forget that becoming pregnant takes two.
So Judge Kavanaugh, if abortion is something you're against, maybe you shouldn't vilify the thing that would prevent an unwanted pregnancy from happening in the first place.
