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24 Mar 2005 08:17:32 PM |
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PROMOTING BIRTH CONTROL = LESS ABORTION |
Lack of birth control leads to three million unplanned pregnancies per
year. One million of these pregnancies end in abortion. Two million
of these pregnancies end in unplanned childbirth. By not promoting
birth control, you're choosing unplanned pregnancies. Though some
people say promoting birth control could encourage sex, that added risk
from the increased incidence of sex, is extremely slight because it is
increased safe sex, compared to the decrease in unsafe sex, turning
unsafe sex into safe sex, and thus decrease in pregnancy.
If you use the pill the chance of pregnancy is 1%, 1 per year in 100
couples. If you use condoms, the risk of pregnancy is 2% or 2 per year
in 100 couples. If you use both the pill and condoms, the risk of
pregnancy falls to 1 per year in 5,000 couples. (Of course, it doesn't
say how often those couples had sex...)
calculation: 1% chance for the pill x 2% chance for condoms = .01 x.02=
..0002
2 in 10,000, or 1 in 5,000.
Given a population of 300 million people in the United States, we
assume 150 million are women, If every one of these women were on the
pill, and used condoms, only 1 in 5000 would get pregnant every year,
or 150million/5,000 = 30,000 unplanned pregnancies, and perhaps less
than 15,000 abortions. The number would perhaps be less than half
that, because not all women are sexually active.
Thus we should promote birth control. Specifically we should promote
the use of two forms of birth control - the pill, and condoms -
together, at the same time.
As far as abortion goes, if you had a sperm and an egg sitting next to
each other in a petri dish, you would normally think it fine to destroy
them. So has anything changed the moment after the sperm fertilizes
the egg? I don't know, but if abortion is wrong, consider that
bringing an unwanted child into the world is not so good either, so try
not to get pregnant. Use birth control AND condoms. In the event you
do get pregnant, consider an abortion within the first three months,
and deal with your problem quickly.
Literature regarding different birth control methods:
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/hormonal_contraception.html
http://hcd2.bupa.co.uk/fact_sheets/html/contraception.html
You can buy condoms online at http://www.condomdepot.com
Remember, be sure to pinch the tip to squeeze any excess air out before
rolling it on, and to leave enough room at the tip to catch the semen,
and to use a new condom for each act of sexual intercourse.
One final thought: If you manage to become multi-orgasmic, you can
orgasm and have sex without ejaculating. This would further reduce the
risk of unwanted pregnancy. If you use condoms and the pill, and
refrain from ejaculation, the risk must fall to almost zero. Perhaps
if our society were more open about these things, we would understand
things like this better, and would be all happier and healthier. In
the event you become mult-orgasmic, you will be able to have sex for
as long as you want, and as often as you want. Read "The
Multi-Orgasmic Man" for more info:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0062513362/qid=1111715174/sr=1-1/ref=sr_1_1/002-6379066-3272829?v=glance&s=books
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| User: "junegill" |
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| Title: Re: PROMOTING BIRTH CONTROL = LESS ABORTION |
24 Mar 2005 09:32:54 PM |
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<EssentialSexInfo@rock.com> wrote in message
news:1111717052.715224.188940@f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com...
Lack of birth control leads to three million unplanned pregnancies per
year. One million of these pregnancies end in abortion. Two million
of these pregnancies end in unplanned childbirth. By not promoting
birth control, you're choosing unplanned pregnancies. Though some
people say promoting birth control could encourage sex, that added risk
from the increased incidence of sex, is extremely slight because it is
increased safe sex, compared to the decrease in unsafe sex, turning
unsafe sex into safe sex, and thus decrease in pregnancy.
If you use the pill the chance of pregnancy is 1%, 1 per year in 100
couples. If you use condoms, the risk of pregnancy is 2% or 2 per year
in 100 couples. If you use both the pill and condoms, the risk of
pregnancy falls to 1 per year in 5,000 couples. (Of course, it doesn't
say how often those couples had sex...)
calculation: 1% chance for the pill x 2% chance for condoms = .01 x.02=
.0002
2 in 10,000, or 1 in 5,000.
Given a population of 300 million people in the United States, we
assume 150 million are women, If every one of these women were on the
pill, and used condoms, only 1 in 5000 would get pregnant every year,
or 150million/5,000 = 30,000 unplanned pregnancies, and perhaps less
than 15,000 abortions. The number would perhaps be less than half
that, because not all women are sexually active.
No, they're not, and do you realise that you've included post-menopausal
women and prepubescent girls in your 150 million? There's something like
70-80 million women in the US who could get pregnant (aged between 15 and
54)*, so according to your calculations that would equal between 14,000 and
16,000 unplanned pregnancies. If, as you say above, that two-thirds of
unplanned pregnancies end in childbirth, that's only about 5,000 abortions.
Keep on plugging birth control.
* See: http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/ipc/idbpyrs.pl?cty=US&out=s&ymax=250
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June G
# 364
http://uk.geocities.com/junegill@btopenworld.com/webpages/index.html.html
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