Contraceptive Availability Reduces Abortions

[the2112]

So I hear this mantra a lot. People claim if we just give out birth control, the abortion rate will decrease. Well I hear from the pro-life side that this isn’t exactly the case. But could someone please give me some evidence I can use to prove this? Some evidence I already see is artificial birth control has been readily available ever since Roe v. Wade and is heavily promoted, yet the abortion rate has only decreased from 1.5 million/year to 1.2 million ever since then (and this could have more to do with the fact there’s far less abortion clinics in the nation now than there was 20 years ago, and more effective pro-life activities). So if contraception was so effective, one would think they’d be far less abortions. Not to mention there will always be people who use abortion as birth control and who use it for sex-selection, so therefore encouraging them to use contraception wouldn’t work. And, according to Abby Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s main focus is abortion because that’s where the money is, and yet Planned Parenthood is a huge promoter of contraception. So you’d think a place that profits off abortion wouldn’t be providing something that’d prevent it.
Also, didn’t Pope Paul VI predict that if the Pill became widely used, then abortion would become legal?

But anyway, could someone give me even more evidence, as in maybe some actual statistics?

 

[Maxirad]

Check this out, the2112.

 

[lilelvispresley]

So I hear this mantra a lot. People claim if we just give out birth control, the abortion rate will decrease. Well I hear from the pro-life side that this isn’t exactly the case. But could someone please give me some evidence I can use to prove this? Some evidence I already see is artificial birth control has been readily available ever since Roe v. Wade and is heavily promoted, yet the abortion rate has only decreased from 1.5 million/year to 1.2 million ever since then (and this could have more to do with the fact there’s far less abortion clinics in the nation now than there was 20 years ago, and more effective pro-life activities). So if contraception was so effective, one would think they’d be far less abortions. Not to mention there will always be people who use abortion as birth control and who use it for sex-selection, so therefore encouraging them to use contraception wouldn’t work. And, according to Abby Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s main focus is abortion because that’s where the money is, and yet Planned Parenthood is a huge promoter of contraception. So you’d think a place that profits off abortion wouldn’t be providing something that’d prevent it.
Also, didn’t Pope Paul VI predict that if the Pill became widely used, then abortion would become legal?

But anyway, could someone give me even more evidence, as in maybe some actual statistics?

“Contraceptive Availability Reduces Abortions”

complete and utter non-sense.

abortion is the “deliberate termination of pregnancy”.
to reduce abortion, people should stop killing unborn babies. thats the solution.

abortion is murder and the consequence is excommunication by the Catholic Church.

people these days live a highly promiscuous and sexually active life.
this is the culture of sin and it leads to a culture of DEATH.

abstinence and celibacy, and sex within marriage are the ways of the Catholic Church.

 

[Dapamadame]

A thoughtful question and I have a feeling you are genuinely searching out the truth. I would encourage you to inform yourself through the numerous online resources for pro-life organizations. I think you will find there is a direct correlation between the advent of the pill and the gradual but undeniable acceptance of abortion. The increase in availability of artificial birth control and sex-ed in schools go hand in hand with the increased numbers of abortions as well as single-parent families.

 

[edwest2]

First, there is only one 100% way to avoid pregnancy and all STDs, do not have sex, but there’s no money in that.

To answer your question:

guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_induced_abortion.html

Apparently, even with access to contraception, some people still do not use it correctly OR they do not know that every method is not 100% effective.

Peace,
Ed

 

[vlf7973]

I do not have any evidence so I really can’t help, but the concept is that as contraception becomes more available, more people end up having sex (they believe that they are somehow “safe” from getting pregnant / getting STDs if they just use some contraception). But since contraception is not 100% effective, there’s an increase of unwanted pregnancies. Unwanted pregnancies often end in abortion, so the abortion rate would also increase.

While I agree with this concept, I have no statistics to back it up. The opposite of this (that contraception reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies in people who have the same amount of sex who were not previously using contraception) is also true. Both of those factor into changes in the abortion rate. And as you said, there are other factors as well (e.g. less abortion clinics, more effective pro-life resources, more legislation, etc.), so all of that will also decrease the abortion rate. I don’t think any statistics will work very well for proving it either way… all we know is that with all these factors, the overall abortion rate is slowly decreasing.

 

[edwest2]

I do not have any evidence so I really can’t help, but the concept is that as contraception becomes more available, more people end up having sex (they believe that they are somehow “safe” from getting pregnant / getting STDs if they just use some contraception). But since contraception is not 100% effective, there’s an increase of unwanted pregnancies. Unwanted pregnancies often end in abortion, so the abortion rate would also increase.

While I agree with this concept, I have no statistics to back it up. The opposite of this (that contraception reduces the number of unwanted pregnancies in people who have the same amount of sex who were not previously using contraception) is also true. Both of those factor into changes in the abortion rate. And as you said, there are other factors as well (e.g. less abortion clinics, more effective pro-life resources, more legislation, etc.), so all of that will also decrease the abortion rate. I don’t think any statistics will work very well for proving it either way… all we know is that with all these factors, the overall abortion rate is slowly decreasing.

The population of the United States is aging. More and more women have passed their child-bearing years and there are fewer children now than during the fake name “baby boom.” The period being 1946 to 1964.

Some young people are waking up to the fact that a plan to destroy the family did exist and is ongoing, so they choose to follow Church teaching instead. This number shows signs of increasing. This will also help lower the number of abortions. Plus most doctors refuse to perform abortions:

lifesitenews.com/blog/accomplishment-8-most-doctors-now-refuse-to-do-abortions/

Peace,
Ed

 

[padrepio_2012]

Birth control, which is a form of contraception, is basically an abortion that happens by means of chemicals. So how does that lower the abortion rate?

 

[KendraDZ1902]

Birth control, which is a form of contraception, is basically an abortion that happens by means of chemicals. So how does that lower the abortion rate?

You do know that women can and do become pregnant while using birth control, right?

 

[MidnightSun12]

As Pope JPII said, contraception and abortion are two fruits from the exact same tree.

One deals with the “problem” of new life before conception, the other deals with it after.

Using one of these evils only furthers the cause of the other.

 

[3DOCTORS]

birth control, which is a form of contraception, is basically an abortion that happens by means of chemicals. So how does that lower the abortion rate?

bingo!!!

 

[runningdude]

So I hear this mantra a lot. People claim if we just give out birth control, the abortion rate will decrease. Well I hear from the pro-life side that this isn’t exactly the case. But could someone please give me some evidence I can use to prove this? Some evidence I already see is artificial birth control has been readily available ever since Roe v. Wade and is heavily promoted, yet the abortion rate has only decreased from 1.5 million/year to 1.2 million ever since then (and this could have more to do with the fact there’s far less abortion clinics in the nation now than there was 20 years ago, and more effective pro-life activities). So if contraception was so effective, one would think they’d be far less abortions. Not to mention there will always be people who use abortion as birth control and who use it for sex-selection, so therefore encouraging them to use contraception wouldn’t work. And, according to Abby Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s main focus is abortion because that’s where the money is, and yet Planned Parenthood is a huge promoter of contraception. So you’d think a place that profits off abortion wouldn’t be providing something that’d prevent it.
Also, didn’t Pope Paul VI predict that if the Pill became widely used, then abortion would become legal?

But anyway, could someone give me even more evidence, as in maybe some actual statistics?

Contraception is immoral on its own for interfering with the natural purpose of sex.

However, the claim that contraception (specifically hormonal conception/the “pill”) reduces abortion is extremely misleading, as hormonal birth control can actually cause abortions by preventing a newly conceived fetus from implanting in the womb.

Doctors have redefined the word “pregnancy” to refer to only after the fetus implants, so that they can avoid stating that hormonal birth control causes abortion. They do not lie about the possibility of preventing implantation as a potential consequence however.

Birth control, which is a form of contraception, is basically an abortion that happens by means of chemicals. So how does that lower the abortion rate?

Partially incorrect. Hormonal birth control does not necessarily cause abortion in all uses.

 

[runningdude]

Birth control, which is a form of contraception, is basically an abortion that happens by means of chemicals. So how does that lower the abortion rate?

Partially incorrect. “Birth control” works mostly by preventing contraception, which is itself a sin. In some instances, However, it can prevent a conceived embryo from implanting, which is abortion. Hormonal birth control does not necessarily cause abortion in all uses.

 

[aspirant]

Hormonal birth control does not necessarily cause abortion in all uses.

It seems to me that the most accurate phrasing would be something like “It is possible that birth control pills may work either as a contraceptive (preventing conception altogether) or as an abortifacient (preventing an embryo from implanting or remaining in the uterus), but it cannot be confirmed in a particular case whether and in which manner it has worked.”

If the analogy will be pardoned, it’s a little like firing a shotgun into a rustling shrub. If there is no person or animal in the shrubbery, shooting will definitely shoo them away. If there is a person or animal in the shrubbery, shooting will kill it. In the case of firing into a shrub, however, we may put down the gun, walk over, and check. In the case of the birth control pill, we do not know whether the “blast” had a shooing or killing effect.

 

[KendraDZ1902]

It seems to me that the most accurate phrasing would be something like “It is possible that birth control pills may work either as a contraceptive (preventing conception altogether) or as an abortifacient (preventing an embryo from implanting or remaining in the uterus), but it cannot be confirmed in a particular case whether and in which manner it has worked.”

If the analogy will be pardoned, it’s a little like firing a shotgun into a rustling shrub. If there is no person or animal in the shrubbery, shooting will definitely shoo them away. If there is a person or animal in the shrubbery, shooting will kill it. In the case of firing into a shrub, however, we may put down the gun, walk over, and check. In the case of the birth control pill, we do not know whether the “blast” had a shooing or killing effect.

How do you explain it when women become pregnant while using birth control pills? It wasn’t shooed or killed.

 

[Gaerteuth]

Depending on what you consider to be a human being, an abortion in the first third of the pregnancy is in a sense, analogous to the morning after pill.

Once the child has developed a nervous system, it can feel suffering and would probably be in too late of a stage for abortion to be a moral option.

Though I’d like to point out that it hasn’t quite developed a mind yet, so it cannot interpret or ponder it’s own demise. If it had a soul, I guess you would have to think of it as a “dormant” soul, a soul with no worldly (name removed by moderator)ut.

 

[Gaerteuth]

How do you explain it when women become pregnant while using birth control pills? It wasn’t shooed or killed.

Contraception is a man-made device. Man-made devices can fail. I’m sure you’ve heard of Japan’s nuclear plants leaking during the tsunami.

 

[KendraDZ1902]

Contraception is a man-made device. Man-made devices can fail. I’m sure you’ve heard of Japan’s nuclear plants leaking during the tsunami.

Considering I know several women who have had unplanned pregnancies, I can say that birth control fails more frequently than nuclear plants.

 

[_Abyssinia]

So I hear this mantra a lot. People claim if we just give out birth control, the abortion rate will decrease. Well I hear from the pro-life side that this isn’t exactly the case. But could someone please give me some evidence I can use to prove this? Some evidence I already see is artificial birth control has been readily available ever since Roe v. Wade and is heavily promoted, yet the abortion rate has only decreased from 1.5 million/year to 1.2 million ever since then (and this could have more to do with the fact there’s far less abortion clinics in the nation now than there was 20 years ago, and more effective pro-life activities). So if contraception was so effective, one would think they’d be far less abortions. Not to mention there will always be people who use abortion as birth control and who use it for sex-selection, so therefore encouraging them to use contraception wouldn’t work. And, according to Abby Johnson, Planned Parenthood’s main focus is abortion because that’s where the money is, and yet Planned Parenthood is a huge promoter of contraception. So you’d think a place that profits off abortion wouldn’t be providing something that’d prevent it.
Also, didn’t Pope Paul VI predict that if the Pill became widely used, then abortion would become legal?

But anyway, could someone give me even more evidence, as in maybe some actual statistics?

1. 
   *]Guttmacher says 55%-60% of women getting an abortion are on contraception
   
   guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/3429402.html
   
   *]Between 1995 and 2001 in Sweden abortion rate fore teens grew 32% in a time when oral contraceptions, cheap condoms, and over the counter emergency contraception:
   
   sti.bmj.com/content/78/5/352.full
   
   *]Research arm of Planned Parenthood the Guttmacher Institute showed a simultaneous increase in contraception use and teen abortion rate in the US, Denmark, Cuba, Singapore, the Netherlands, and South Korea:
   
   guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/2900603.html
   
   *]In England in 1999 the government put 15 million pounds in to sex education, Students where offered condoms, morning after pills, while having ‘safe sex education’ in schools. In March 2004 they found that STD rates had gone up 64%, teens pregnancies where also up, some areas experience 34% overall leap. The greatest increases where in areas where the program had been implemented:
   
   telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1456789/Teen-pregnancies-increase-after-sex-education-classes.html
   
   *]10 year study in Spain reported to have found:
   

   [C]ontraception use increased by about 60%, the abortion rate doubled. In other words, even with an increase in contraception use, there weren’t fewer unwanted pregnancies, there were more.

   jillstanek.com/2011/01/study-spain-contraception-use-up-abortions-double-researchers-cant-figure-out-why
   
   *]National Review reported that ‘out of 23 studies on the effects of increased access to ECs, not one study could show a reduction in unintended pregnancies or abortions’
   
   old.usccb.org/prolife/issues/contraception/contrafactsheet.pdf
   
   Planned Parenthood’s Frederick S. Jaffe, in Abortion Politics, says
   

   … even if everyone were to practice contraception, and use the most effective medically prescribed methods, there would still be a very large number of unwanted pregnancies

   Alfred Kinsey said in 1995
   

   At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the groups which, in general, most frequently uses contraception

   British Abortionist Judith Bury, Brook Advisory Centres, 1981
   

   … women… have come to request [abortions] when contraception fails. There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision [availability] of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate

   Abortionist and international contraception promoter Malcolm Potts who was former director of Planned Parenthood of England, an abortionist and international promoter of contraception, said in 1976 and apparently as early as 1973, quoted in ‘Sex and Social Engineering’ by Valerie Riches
   

   As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate…

   In Abortion, he said
   

   … those who use contraception are more likely than those who do not to resort to induced abortion

 

[aspirant]

How do you explain it when women become pregnant while using birth control pills? It wasn’t shooed or killed.

Not sure what this has to do with my post, but it’s called “failure.” From there, one can investigate whether it was method failure or user failure.