Pro-abort blog touts abortion as birth control
Pro-aborts usually deny there are some who use abortion as a primary or secondary means of birth control. They know such a fact makes them appear irresponsible and soulless, and they also know “abortion for any reason” never polls well, for instance (click to enlarge):
It also ruins their “comprehensive sex ed” claim that the more one knows about sex and how to avoid pregnancy, the fewer abortions there will be.
But we all know that truth be told a significant number of sexually active females just get sloppy. Put another way, I’m quite sure that if abortion were illegal, women would exercise much greater caution.
That’s why it was refreshing to see the Abortioneers blog get honest on this point, recently asking this poll question:
The poll is closed but still available for viewing on the right side of the Abortioneers home page, although I suspect not for long now.
At any rate, thanks for clearing that up, Abortioneers.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
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I know someone who couldn’t afford birth control (not that I think it’s much better) at some point and didn’t have insurance, but wouldn’t abstain from sex during that time and when she became pregnant, she got an abortion–three times. She said she paid for those herself… isn’t an abortion more expensive than the pill (aside from the fact that the pill is a “mini”-abortion)? Anyways… the fourth time she got pregnant, she told her husband (then her boyfriend) that she couldn’t do it again. Thing is, she insists she did nothing wrong and it wasn’t murder… but then why couldn’t she do it again? I still love her… I’ll just never understand some people.
JulieP.,
Your friend may just be making excuses for her abortions. It’s not easy to admit to killing three innocent human beings. It’s a shame she can’t see the error of her ways -but it will catch up with her eventually. Next time she should find a CPC if she needs help. She’s fortunate to have someone like you in her life.
I did a piece once on abortions as birth control:
http://realchoice.blogspot.com/2005/07/are-abortions-used-as-birth-control.html
The hard-liners, defining “abortion as birth control” as any abortion chosen because the woman doesn’t want to have the baby, put the “abortions as birth control” rate at 95%. The middle ground, judging by repeat abortions, puts “abortions as birth control” at 45%. And the most conservative count, just counting abortions on women who weren’t using contraception, put “abortions as birth control” at 42%. Even the low end, the conservative estimate of 42%, is still, by anybody’s reckoning, a lot of abortions.
‘It also ruins their “comprehensive sex ed” claim that the more one knows about sex and how to avoid pregnancy, the fewer abortions there will be.’ – how?
‘But we all know that truth be told a significant number of sexually active females just get sloppy’ – based on?
‘How confidently can you describe birth control methods…’ – does this itself not belie your claim regarding sex education?
Julie P. – ‘aside from the fact that the pill is a “mini”-abortion’ – how so?
In the good old days, control of birth meant whether you went to a big hospital or had the baby at home, because according to the english language, that’s what it ought to mean. Calling ‘contraception’ birth control is really a misnomer because you’re not controlling births but rather cutting down on the chances of conception. Nothing is 100% except a hysterectomy, so even the pill isn’t birth control, it’s ‘conception minimization.’
The main problem with the so called ‘sex education’ that is being pushed on our young people is that its actually ‘social sexual indoctrination.’ Real ‘sex education’ would simply occur in biology class somewhere between yeast budding, plants being pollinated, frogs fertilizing eggs, and mammals bearing live young. That would keep the information in context and would help young people learn to compare and contrast different reproduction manners of various lifeforms on the planet where they live. What’s so bad about that? Why do pro-abortion advocates have such a huge problem with children learning comprehensive biology in class? Why do they need a special program of social indoctrination??? Hm???
The single most effective form of birth…..control would be to murder pregnant women. (History is replete with examples. It goes on even today in third world countries and in isolated incidences, even in the developed world.)
Abortion, is the second most effective form of birth……control, both for quantity and quality purposes.
You can determine the the number of live births allowed and you can control for quality (a very subjective choice) or personal pereference in the children who are allowed to be birthed.
Some of the more ‘progressive’ proponents of the quality control crowd would allow for murdering infants weeks, months, even years after they have been birthed if the child doen’t meet the elitist’s arbitrary and subjective standard of ‘normal/acceptable’.
Coming in third on the list is attempted contra…….ception in it’s various forms.
cranium
September 13th, 2010 at 6:14 pm
Julie P. – ‘aside from the fact that the pill is a “mini”-abortion’ – how so?
Cranium:
Breakthrough ovulation can and does occur in women using the Pill, and this means that conception can also occur.
Now, consider the following information (If the math doesn’t make your eyes cross) :) from William F. Colliton, Jr., M.D., a Clinical Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at George Washington Univesity Medical Center:
“Women on BCPs have 28-day cycles and thus have 13 cycles per year (365/28 = 13.3). According to Facts in Brief from the Alan Guttmacher Institute (faxed 3/13/98), 10,410,000 U.S. women are current pill users, 26.9% of all methods. This is second only to sterilization used by 27.7% of contraceptors. . . . Dr. Don Gambrell has informed us that there is a 14% breakthrough ovulation rate in females taking the 50 microgram pills (10,410,000 x 0.14 = 1,457,400 ovulations each cycle). 1,457,000 x 13 cycles per year = 18,946,200 possible exposures to pregnancy each year.
“The accepted rate for “pill pregnancies” is 3-5 per 100 women. Noting the fact that there is a 60+% rate of spontaneous tubal abortions with an unfavorable implantation site in ectopic pregnancies, it is reasonable for us to calculate a rate of conceptions lost to early physician (BCP) induced abortion of intrauterine pregnancies in pill users as twice that of term “pill pregnancies”, given once again, an endometrium that is “less vascular, less glandular, thinner” than normal.
“Thus the possible abortion rate induced by BCPs is 18,946,200 « 0.06 = 1,136,772 or 18,946,200 « 0.1 = 1,894,620 per year. We are convinced that the reasoning with regard to the math on this issue is sound.”
So, i.e. “unfavorable implantation site” – The hormones in the Pill create a hostile environment which causes an embryo great difficulty in attaching to the lining of the uterus. The embryo will often starve to death and miscarry as a direct result.
To understand this more clearly, think about a garden: Compare what will happen if you try to plant a flower in brittle, dry soil versus what will happen if you try to plant a flower in rich, moist soil. Which flower will have the greater chance of surviving? A stronger menstrual period might be the only indication that an early abortion has occurred.
Janet: Thank you! :) I wish she saw it that way (that she is fortunate to have me in her life). Maybe one day? Another friend of hers bit my head off because I refused to change my position on abortion after she revealed she had had three, but she seemed to understand that I hated her sin (even if she didn’t call it thus), but I still loved her. I also agree that she is maybe trying to make excuses because the things she said just didn’t seem to add up. At any rate, I’ll keep loving her. :)
Bekah: Thank you for answering that question! You did an astounding job! Much better than I could have. I knew that’s how the pill worked, but you gave all the math to back it up as well… very cool! :) IUD’s also cause abortions… their primary function is not to stop conception, but to stop implantation.
Thank you for your comprehensive response Bekah. Obviously the pill can be a cause of miscarriage although I see there is some debate as to the rate. It is also apparent that there are numerous medications which can also cause miscarriage so it is obvious that people who wish to maintain their pregnancy need to take great care.