Posted on 06/20/2013 12:36:52 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o
The number of abortions in Sweden has risen despite the popularity of the morning-after pill, says a leader of a midwives group.
Catharina Zatterstrom, deputy chairwoman of the Swedish Association of Midwives, said introduction of the pill 12 years ago had raised hopes the number of abortions would decline, The Local.se reported Friday.
However, abortion rates increased 20.9 per 1,000 women last year from 18.4 in 1997, she said.
In the meantime, more than twice as many morning-after pills were sold in 2012 than when the pill became available in 2001, Zatterstrom added.
"It's very strange and saddening," she said. "There's nothing wrong with the fact that the sales have increased, but it would be much better if we could find a functioning contraception."
The rise in abortions is caused mostly by Swedes' lackadaisical attitudes toward the use of contraceptives, said Ian Milsom, professor of obstetrics and gynecology at Gothenburg University.
He said abortion rates in Sweden were higher than in many other countries.
"The problem area is the 20- to 24-year-old group, that's where the trend looks gloomiest," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at upi.com ...
Why? Because they have two effects: one pharmacological and counter-fertility; the other, psycho-social and counter-responsibility. The first, intended effect is overwhelmed by the second, unintended effect.
According to testimony offered to the FDA in 2004, both unintended pregnancies and sexually-transmitted infections soared in the British Isles when “Plan B" was made available without prescription in 2000. Ignoring the warning signals from the UK, California subsequently became one of the first states to permit the sale of Plan B over-the-counter without an age limit. (Compiled testimony of Wendy Wright, Carole Denner, and Jill Stanek, "The Morning-After Pill: An Ill Wind This Way Blows.")
And in this article, we learn that the morning-after pill became available to minors without prescription in 2001, and now, even though the number of pills sold annually has doubled, the annual abortion rate inexorably crept up from 18.4 to 20.9 abortion per 1,000 women.
Because the women (and presumably the men) have "lackadaisical attitudes."
You've heard of hate-killings. You'e heard of passion-killings. You've heard of felony armed-robbery killings. But these abortions are "lackadaisical" killings.
Think of that.
This is what blows my mind: they (the health researchers and statistics-crunchers) know this going to happen. So why do they do this?
By definition a morning after pill IS an abortion pill.
I think the 20 week bill currently in the house is a good beginning. But we all know it is dead in the senate and the would be a laugh at the White Hut though it’ll never reach that far
There is a huge difference between taking a pill that MIGHT terminate a pregnancy and paying a doctor to kill your unborn child. We have normalized abortion by blurring the lines. We turned abortion into a form of “birth control” like The Pill or a condom.
I remember someone telling me that she had an abortion because she didn’t want to have a baby. She never thought she had a baby....but she did. She realized that much later in life.
I’ll attempt to clarify my previous remarks. The “morning after” pill is taken with the intent to terminate a pregnancy (by preventing an embryo from implanting). Once it’s a routine practice to use “morning after” pills, as if they were a contraceptive (”The Pill”), then you’re likely much less averse to a surgical abortion. It’s one of those “psycho-social” factors that Mrs. Don-o alluded to.
“The “morning after” pill is taken with the intent to terminate a pregnancy “
IF there is a pregnancy. It’s a pretty remote chance. With an abortion or infanticide, there is no IF.
To draw an analogy, it’s like the difference between firing a rifle into the air and shooting someone point-blank in the head.
Unexpected! *drink*
I agree with USFRIEND. One doesn’t take a “morning after” pill unless there’s been a “night before” that creates a reasonable likelihood of conception.
agreed. It is irrational to think that irresposibile persons would act responsibily.
Maybe it’s like you’ve got an abandoned building on your property very attractive to children, and you know youngsters sometimes come in there and play, and you pepper the building with shotgun blasts fairly frequently. Not knowing whether there are any kids there or not, but intending them harm if they are.
Sad news, sadder still considering there’s no quick fix for this.
I heard a lib defending Plan B on Rush a few weeks back (when it became available to anyone of any age) insisting it did not induce abortion ,, Rush backed down ...
TECHNICALLY as pregnancy has now been defined not as conception but when the womans body begins to support the new baby human at IMPLANTATION the lib was correct ... plan “B” causes rejection at the implantation point/stage pregnancy as defined does not occur although a life is ended.
The normalizing of abortion is what must be targeted, it is the enabler.
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