I don’t know where you got your stat on the 75%, but from Guttmacher’s own website, 54% of women obtaining abortion services were contraception when they got pregnant. As far as the abortion industry discouraging contraceptive use, I have never, ever witnessed that. All abortion clinics in my local phone book offer free conforms, prescriptions for birth control pills, and the morning after pill.
Your thoughts on this are way off. How do you explain widespread use of BCPs and IUDs yet we still abort over 1 million children in this country every year?? Contraception is not fail-safe and it is a lie. It’s the real war on women. Wake up.
The stat was from Guttmacher institute. They used to have their own "medical journal" where they would publish results of their "research." If the number is now 54% claim to have been using contraception, I doubt that it reflects a real change in contraceptive use. Most likely, it represents a higher number making that claim.
Abortion mills do not openly discourage contraceptive use; their discouragement is far more subtle. I'll use the example of a Planned Parenthood representative who came to my high school--this took place in the 1970s, but I have no reason to think the advertising pitch has significantly changed. It was a four-part approach.
One part is to scoff at the idea that a growing fetus is alive, to give the impression that believing life exists in the womb is equivalent to believing in the Easter bunny. The purpose of this part is clear: selling abortion becomes significantly more difficult if actual facts about the unborn child were discussed.
The next two parts go hand-in-hand. First, the unreliability of contraceptives is stressed. That is meant to give the impression that it's not worth bothering with them. Second, the danger of contraceptives is discussed in great detail, effectively exaggerating the perception of risk involved. So the recipients of this contraceptive "information" walk away believing that contraceptives don't prevent pregnancy, and they could kill you.
The last part was to stress how safe abortion is, and even claim health benefits from having late-term abortions.
A few other lies were tied in with this discouragement of contraceptive use. What was clear was that this woman was hard-selling abortion. Well, it wasn't clear at the time, but with maturity came insight into what was really going on there.
Your thoughts on this are way off. How do you explain widespread use of BCPs and IUDs yet we still abort over 1 million children in this country every year?? Contraception is not fail-safe and it is a lie. It’s the real war on women. Wake up.
I'm awake. The numbers of children being aborted have been dropping since the 90s. During the Obama administration, they've dropped even faster. The CDC attributed that to the bad economy: women can't afford to get pregnant, so they are actually using contraceptives more.
Also, another strong indication that abortion is a result of lack of contraceptive use is the wide disparity in abortion rates between different races. If these pregnancies were resulting from contraceptive failure, then the abortion rates would be the same regardless of race.
I genuinely do not understand why a self-proclaimed pro-lifer would want to discourage contraceptive use. Do you really expect women to remain virgins, or to only have physical relations with their husbands only when they actively want a baby? Doesn't that seem a bit unrealistic?