Prevention, not abortion

Boston Globe ^ | 12/23/2003 | Darshak Sanghavi

[RJCogburn]

LAST WEEK, when an advisory committee to the Food and Drug Administration recommended that the "morning-after pill" called Plan B be available without a prescription, I remembered a teenage girl whose abortion I helped perform as a medical student.

The 15-year-old patient, whom I'll call Lakeesha, had a depressingly common situation. Each year, about one in 10 American girls between the ages of 15 and 19 gets pregnant, since about a third of teens use no contraception.

[Agnes Heep]

No, like all these other fools' measures it will only succeed in making teens more cavalier in their attitudes about sex.

[Tax-chick]

"Here's your abortion pill, sweetie ... when you've got AIDS, call someone else, please."

[ClearCase_guy]

But simply making abortion illegal won't save lives

Actually, it will save lives. Millions of lives. Every year. Year after year after year.

[madprof98]

We operate with the mistaken belief that making an abortion harder to get makes it less likely. It doesn't.

The abortionist lies. When abortion is restricted, the numbers of abortions go down. That's the experience here in the U.S. and helps to explain why pro-lifers support measures like parental consent and waiting periods. Don't believe it? Then guess why pro-death folks fight such measures tooth and nail.