An article in the NY Times, popular on Blogdex today, says that a lot of today’s teens are anti-abortion. Interestingly, a quote toward the end of the article reveals a fairly profound misunderstanding on the part of at least one young person:

“There are better contraceptives—RU-486, the morning-after pill—along with an emphasis on sex ed, abstinence and slogans like, ‘Not me, Not now,'” said a sophomore at Hunter College High School in Manhattan whose father did not want her to be identified. “Abortion isn’t such an issue, because getting pregnant isn’t such a prevalent problem among my peers.”

If they think that the morning-after pill—to say nothing of RU-486, f’r Chrissakes—will continue to be available after a ban on abortion, they have a rude awakening in store. The anti-abortionists would outlaw most women’s hormonal contraceptives on the grounds that they can prevent a fertilized egg from implanting, so it’s hard to imagine they would overlook methods that are explicitly post-fertilization.
On the bright side, those arguments don’t apply to men’s hormonal contraception. On the down side, I’m not optimistic that men have any interest in managing their fertility. But I’m probably just cranky from my unmodulated hormones.