is like saying people shouldn't eat if they don't want to crap.

Waddya think of my new slogan?

Seriously, I know this is extreme, and not really a valid comparison. I'm not trying to compare having a baby to defecating, or trying to say that babies are feces, or anything of the sort. I know some people will try to take it that way.

The human sex drive is as innate and fundamental to the human psyche as the feeding drive. This point is the elephant in the room that fundamentalists refuse to talk about. It is a necessity for a healthy human being to have some sort of sexual expression. Prolonged abstinence is simply not psychlogically healthy, any more than starvation is biologically healthy, and promoting abstinence only as a means of birth control and of behavior in society is just as destructive as trying to promote starvation as a method for weight loss. In some cases absitnence may be mentally clearing, but that doesn't make forced abstinence a healthy option for living.

30 Days last night had a pro-choice activist live in an anti-choice maternity home for a month, and one of the things discussed in the show was that the mothers were able to (forced, actually) watch anti-choice propaganda videotapes on a daily basis. Yet, information on birth control was not available, because they believed birth control to be a bad thing. Even though it would give the women living in the shelter the opportunity to control their lives and not have another pregnancy they could not support, birth control was still considered a bad thing, and abstinence was presented to these women as the only moral option to not carrying a baby to term. What this really comes down to is: live in misery, or be prepared to have a baby.