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Buffett & birth control

2015-07-31 15:25:00.427848+00 by Dan Lyke 0 comments

Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution:

“For Warren, it’s economic. He thinks that unless women can control their fertility—and that it’s basically their right to control their fertility—that you are sort of wasting more than half of the brainpower in the United States,” ...

Via MeFi, in which cstross re-states the obvious fairly well:

I find it easiest to understand the anti-abortion movement as not being "pro-life" or anything like that, but rather about patriarchal enforcement of traditional patterns of female behaviour (marriage, subservience, kinder, kuche, kirche, etc) and especially about punishing female expressions of self-determined sexuality. ...

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