Word: argumentative
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...deal, he is careful to use the word we in discussing the town's future. "We don't want to see change in Nauvoo," he says, "yet there's no way you can stop [it]." This, in a country where change is the secular religion, is an almost unanswerable argument. But Millard gives it the inimitable Mormon spin. "The church believes in unity and harmony, and the official position is to work things out," he says. "But when there's a goal to accomplish, they like it to be accomplished...
...Really. What other argument do you need other than that...
...basic moral intuition about what's right and wrong. What I provide for people is argument and support. I cannot tell you how many women have said my pounding on about how the first priority in their lives ought to be the child has helped them. That pounding was met by some negativity at first, but now people say their lives are just elevated by doing what seems so simple but is counter to what's going on in society...
...interestingly, many pill opponents don't premise their concerns on women's health; rather, they take the view that any further infiltration could lead to increased teenage access to the pill, which, the argument goes, would lead to increased rates of sexual activity. The fact that teens are having sex already and that the pill would simply ensure they wouldn't get pregnant seems to be lost. But that's probably to be expected...
...unless you are particularly fastidious about taking your pill at the same time every day, you run the risk of pregnancy. But when one considers the fact that an adult could easily kill herself by downing a bottle of something as universally accessible and generally innocuous as aspirin, the argument to keep the pill out of widespread circulation on the basis of its potential health hazards loses most of its steam...