Is contraception the answer to reducing abortions?

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How many unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions could have been avoided by more aggressive policies on sex education and encouraging contraception? It’s tricky issue and I am concerned that we should continue to discuss this.

If you want to discuss it further there is a discussion group at cicerotv.com/question/83
 
Not a tricky issue at all, if one follows the Church teachings on abstinance before marriage. The faulty premise is that sex is that premarital sex is going to happen, so we might as well encourage pre-conception birth control in order to avoid abortions.

The answer is yes, better contraception would help reduce the number of abortions. So would better adherance to abstinance, and that is by far the better way to go.

I’d rather discuss it here in this forum, thanks. 🙂
 
There is no evidence that an increase in education regarding contraception would decrease the number of abortions. In fact, the opposite is true.

Do Sex Education and Access to Contraception Cut Down on Abortion?

When one falls prey to a contraceptive mentality, then abortion is easier to justify simply as a backup plan. When one believes that contraception is contrary to the natural law, one also tends to believe that abortion is also contrary to the natural law.
 
ianywtv said:
How many unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions could have been avoided by more aggressive policies on sex education and encouraging contraception? It’s tricky issue and I am concerned that we should continue to discuss this.

If you want to discuss it further there is a discussion group at cicerotv.com/question/83
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No; it is the contraceptive mentality (the separation of sex from procreation) that leads to abortion.

When sex is treated as a means of spiritual, physical, and emotional bonding between husband and wife, with the possibility and even the likelihood of pregnancy being left up to God, this is when the relationship is most sexually healthy.
 
The fundamental error that contraceptive proponents make is to ASSUME that sexual promiscuity has a fixed rate totally independent of the presence, knowledge and availability of contraceptives. When you start with this assumption, it is OBVIOUS that contraception will reduce both pregnancy rates and STD rates.

Problem is that the assumption is dead wrong. When people are lead to believe that contraception will prevent pregnancy and STD, their perception is that it isn’t risky to ‘hook up’ when the urge hits. Thus, they more often engage in risky behavior and the increased exposure to risk more than offsets the modest ‘protection’ offered by contraception.

Not coincidentally, cultures that have embraced contraception as socially acceptable have higher promiscuity rates and resulting higher rates of STD and unwed pregnancy.
 
Hi,

According to the Catholic Church contraception is not the answer:
From the catechism of the Catholic church.
1789
  • One may never do evil so that good may result from it;
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2370 Periodic continence, that is, the methods of birth regulation based on self-observation and the use of infertile periods, is in conformity with the objective criteria of morality.158 These methods respect the bodies of the spouses, encourage tenderness between them, and favor the education of an authentic freedom. In contrast, “every action which, whether in anticipation of the conjugal act, or in its accomplishment, or in the development of its natural consequences, proposes, whether as an end or as a means, to render procreation impossible” is intrinsically evil:159
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Advocating evil, is evil:
1868 Sin is a personal act. Moreover, we have a responsibility for the sins committed by others when we cooperate in them:
  • by participating directly and voluntarily in them;
  • by ordering, advising, praising, or approving them;
  • by not disclosing or not hindering them when we have an obligation to do so;
  • by protecting evil-doers.
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Therefore one may not promote conntaception (which is intrinsically evil) in order to prevent the greater evil of abortion.

peace,
 
The answer is yes, better contraception would help reduce the number of abortions. So would better adherance to abstinance, and that is by far the better way to go.
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In the real world yes!👍
Look at the disminution of abortion in Eastern Europe and Japan once contraception became legal.
Proven beyond al doubts.
The problem in the US and Western Europe is that contraception and abortion became legal at the same time creating the birth control at all cost mentality that leads to abortion.
In countries were abortion was legal before contraception became available and in countries were abortion was made ilegal or restricted but contraception remained legal the fall in the number of abortions was clear, in the hundred of thousands once contraception became available.
That is worth paying attention.
 
Lets see…

contraception reduces abortion; sounds like eliminating the speed limits will reduce speeding also. Perhaps if we eliminated the law against rape, there would be fewer people violated?

I think that Pete_ has it right.
 
ianywtv said:
How many unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions could have been avoided by more aggressive policies on sex education and encouraging contraception? It’s tricky issue and I am concerned that we should continue to discuss this.

If you want to discuss it further there is a discussion group at cicerotv.com/question/83
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If one is a Christian, and one follows the Word of God, then one will offer one’s body as a living sacrifice to God in Christ.

Yes, in answer to your question, contraception does reduce abortions. At a presentation of Planned Parenthood, the largest provider of abortive services, a speaker said that PP does NOT encourage abortion as a method of birth control. In other words, they are saying the need for an abortion is a failure of appropriate contraception.

In my view, contraception is a failure of devoting oneself as a temple of the Holy Spirit in living sacrifice to God. This opinion is not currently politically correct, however.
 
Hit That Lyrics

The winds of fortune
Don’t blow the same
She had to get out
And make a change
She had a kid now
But much too young
That baby daddy’s out having fun

He’s saying
I’m on a roll
With all the girls I know
His baby’s momma
She ain’t so slow
He’s saying
I’m on a roll
With all the girls I know
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that hit that
All the world is gettin’ with, I say
Consequences are a lot, but hey
That’s the way it
That’s the way things go

What was a family
Is now a shell
We’re raising kids now
Who raise themselves
Sex is a weapon
It’s like a drug
It gets him right into that grave that he just dug

She’s saying
I’m on the run
I’m chasing guys for fun
Her baby’s daddy
It ain’t his only one
She’s saying
I’m on the run
I’m chasing guys for fun
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that hit that
Everybody’s gettin’ with, I say
Consequences are a lot, but hey
That’s the way it
That’s the way things go

Well it winds up
Broken up
Really such a shame
But why not
Take a chance
Everything’s a game
And it don’t stop
Hooking up
Nothing’s gonna change
The more he’s trying
The more he’s buying

He says
I’m on a roll
With all the girls I know
His baby’s momma
Don’t need to know
He’s saying
I’m on a roll
With all the girls I know
I know you wanna hit that
I know you wanna hit that hit that
All the world is gettin’ with, I say
Consequences are a lot, but hey
That’s the way it
That’s the way things go

Need I say more?
 
If nothing else, IMO,common sense dictates that properly used contraception would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, which in turn, would reduce the number of abortions.

Of course, the Church takes issue with the use of contraception, but I think the premise is still sound.
 
That’s the problem. Properly used. And it’s bogus because if one lacks the formation and virtue to avoid fornicating, they ain’t going to have the virtue required to properly use contraceptives every time.

Sin makes you stupid. Meaning more abortions with or without contraceptives.
 
mikew262 said:
If nothing else, IMO,common sense dictates that properly used contraception would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, which in turn, would reduce the number of abortions.
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This assumes that you have the same amount of sex with contraception as you would have without it.

The reality is that when you start using contraception, you increase the amount of sex you have. If only to justify the expense, but also because you feel invincible.
Of course, the Church takes issue with the use of contraception, but I think the premise is still sound.
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The Church has good reasons to take issue with it. It interferes with human fertility, which is one of the classical definitions of poison. 😃
 
Scottgun said:
That’s the problem. Properly used. And it’s bogus because if one lacks the formation and virtue to avoid fornicating, they ain’t going to have the virtue required to properly use contraceptives every time.
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I don’t think thats necessarily true at all. Properly using contraceptives takes some degree of intelligence; virtue has nothing to do with it.
 
mikew262 said:
I don’t think thats necessarily true at all. Properly using contraceptives takes some degree of intelligence; virtue has nothing to do with it.
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Of course virtue has something to do with it.
Again, Sin makes you stupid.
 
jmcrae said:
This assumes that you have the same amount of sex with contraception as you would have without it.

The reality is that when you start using contraception, you increase the amount of sex you have. If only to justify the expense, but also because you feel invincible.
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While I’m sure your theory is true in some cases, IMO, it’s not an absolute.
 
mikew262 said:
While I’m sure your theory is true in some cases, IMO, it’s not an absolute.
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So what? The only thing that matters is that contraception is objectively wrong. So the answer to the op question is an unequivocal NO.
 
Scottgun said:
Of course virtue has something to do with it.
Again, Sin makes you stupid.
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One either properly uses contraception or they don’t. It’s as simple as that. Using contraception and having sex outside of marriage is considered sinful by the Church, but saying sin makes you stupid has no direct connection to the proper use of contraception. In fact, it sounds kind of silly. It may be stupid to sin, but not the other way around.
 
Scottgun said:
So what? The only thing that matters is that contraception is objectively wrong. So the answer to the op question is an unequivocal NO.
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Not everybody agrees that contraception is wrong, even through the Church thinks it is.
 
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