Wait, hold up! Cemetery? You can just add BLASPHEMY to your list of sins, you loose woman, you!

I highly doubt that shaming women has ever prevented a single pregnancy. But if you’re a woman-hater–especially a religious one–you can’t very well use tactics that actually DO work, like empowering women through education.

Aren’t 20-somethings adults? If you ultimately have the resources to care for a child, and want one “someday” what is so wrong with this? It’s how life works sometimes. This pretty much sums up how my husband and I felt and I don’t consider my child “unplanned” just because I wasn’t pining away for a baby right now. Granted, we were married, but who is to say that some of these people she is writing about aren’t also in committed relationships?

I don’t think we’ll ever eliminate all unplanned pregnancies. For one thing, we don’t have complete control over our bodies always. For another, the goal of no unplanned pregnancies doesn’t take ambivalence into account; if Mr. blue_streak and I had waited until we were absolutely sure, our kid might not have been born and we wouldn’t have wanted that either.