I like math, but the ‘bad math’ here is yours.
I’m perfectly capable of arithmetic errors, as my students will attest, the difference being that when they’re pointed out, I correct them, a policy I not only model for my students, but recommend for others.
You don’t say, for example, that because a certain orthopaedic clinic has some excellent surgical results in its patients, but deliberately kills some of its others without their consent, that the clinic ‘is an excellent clinic’, now do you? Even if your contention was that perhaps (you never DID give us the figures, did you?) more people lived, even ‘lived with better quality of life’ than people died, the fact is that people who would have otherwise lived were deliberately killed without their personal consent.
There’s a reasonable argument that the services provided by Planned Parenthood would be more effective at stemming abortions if they didn’t provide abortions, or especially in urban settings, did not provide referrals for abortions. I might add that Crisis Pregnancy Centers do not typically provide access to contraceptives.
That argument is not advanced by hyperbolic statements about killing others without their consent, which, if true, would be clearly illegal by current law. So is murder, another common refrain repeatedly advanced for decades with an equal lack of effect and lack of basic honesty, as might otherwise be expected from those arguing for a perceived moral imperative.
Without contraceptives, the typical sexually active woman has an
85 percent chance of becoming pregnant in any year, not 50 percent as provided in the thumb rule, meaning the break even for net reduction is not two contraceptive clients for every abortion clients, but 1.2 contraceptive clients.
Moreover, because abortion clients at Planned Parenthood are also provided counseling and access to contraceptives, there’s a further net reduction not reflected in these thumb rule estimates.
Currently,
18 percent of pregnancies in the US are aborted, not counting miscarriages, almost all of which stem from unintended pregnancies, almost all of which can be prevented by timely delivery of birth control.
Unplanned parenthood is the proximal and most easily counteracted cause of abortion.
Yes, as I’ve previously stipulated, I understand the Catholic church opposes most forms of contraception. The Catholic church also opposes abortion. It would be interesting to me to hear how these conflicting goals are mediated. It would not be interesting to me to hear they are brushed aside by a failure to do the arithmetic, or worse, to assert the arithmetic is not valid.
because, it is exactly the same as the deer in the headlights pointed out earlier 