>There are many people in the US who are opposing any form of birth control, abortion and sexual education because of somewhat religious beliefs. And that is a dangerous mix. I did not look at the stats recently, but the US scores very high on unintended teen pregnancies.

Walter, please point to recent pieces of legislation in the United States that ban birth control.

Sure, there are all sorts of social institutions that oppose birth control (or have in the past). Some of these institutions are known globally, so you can't say it's specific to the U.S. And there have been movements that oppose contraception mandates (i.e. movements that oppose that insurers MUST cover contraception). To date, these recent movements have never sought to criminalize birth control - they oppose an insurer being forced to cover it.

I usually don't agree with these movements - I think it's bad business for an insurer to cover male products without hesitation, but suddenly get all high and mighty about products normally purchased by women. But again, opposing it and seeking to criminalize are 2 different things.

So it's one thing to personally oppose something - quite another to push through legislation on it.