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The Bush administration wants to cut off federal aid from any organization that refuses to hire people who object to birth control, by redefining abortion to include drugs that prevent implantation such as the birth control pill and emergency contraception:

In the proposal, obtained by The New York Times, the administration says it could cut off federal aid to individuals or entities that discriminate against people who object to abortion on the basis of “religious beliefs or moral convictions.”

The proposal defines abortion as follows: “any of the various procedures — including the prescription, dispensing and administration of any drug or the performance of any procedure or any other action — that results in the termination of the life of a human being in utero between conception and natural birth, whether before or after implantation.”

I suppose the idea of life starting at conception is nothing new, and Bush doing things to restrict access to not only abortion but also birth control is nothing new either. But when I think of people who are against birth control, I generally think of Catholics, and having non-Catholics espousing the same ideas still surprises me at times.

It's enough to make me want to forswear having sex on my own moral grounds. If people think that because I have sex, I should be forced to endure pregnancy and having children... I don't fucking need to be having sex. I'm just doing it to make other people happy anyway. If the bloody people I have sex with support politicians who espouse those kind of ideas... it fucking goes against my morals to be sexually involved with them.

Whoa. I clicked on the "random LJ" link I had saved a while back, and it opened up the LJ of a name I recognized - someone on the friends-list of someone on my LJ friends-list. What's the odds of that happening? Certainly, I've clicked the link several times before and not had this happen... most of the pages I've gotten have been in Russian, actually.

I suppose if I added together all the people on the friends-lists of all the people on my current friends-list, it might be a big number. But I'd probably only recognize a percentage of those - people who've left enough comments on the other person's journal that the name has stuck in my head.

Lessee... 2273 is the # of friends-of-friends, not including the groups. (Some peeps surely are popular.) But how many names would I recognize out of all LJ-dom? I'd guess maybe a couple hundred, tops. And me getting a random LJ page, and it being one of them?