Comments on: What Might Have Been – The Man Who Could Have Reversed Roe v. Wade, Part two

By: Mike Airhart

Mike Airhart — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 03:12:42 +0000

Courtesy of Box Turtle Bulletin, here is objective federal statistical evidence of abstinence-only programs’ failure to reduce sexual activity and sexually transmitted disease among youths.

http://www.boxturtlebulletin.com/2008/01/22/1329

By: Marty

Marty — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 12:19:43 +0000

By the logic of many here, poverty could be eliminated completely if we just killed all the poor people.

By: ken

ken — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 16:03:31 +0000

When used properly contraceptives have a less than 10% failure rate. Including those who don’t use them properly is how you get to the 30% failure rate. So the argument that “contraceptives don’t work, so teaching how to use them doesn’t help” is a false argument. Teaching people how do use contraceptives properly AND the importance of using them, does help.

By: Mike Airhart

Mike Airhart — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 15:45:35 +0000

Again, Vianney, you have offered no evidence to substantiate your claims. Your assertions are ideological, not factual.

By: Vianney

Vianney — Sun, 20 Jan 2008 06:21:43 +0000

Mike,

I realize it is hard to believe and counter intuitive that birth contol causes more abortions. In reality it is the birth control mentality that causes “unwanted” pregnacies. It is a mentality that says, we can have sex whenever we want as long as we are “protected”. But birth control is not 100% effective. The methods vary from a 10 – 30% failure rate depending on whose statistics you read. Do the math and that is a lot of “unwanted” pregancies, many of which end in abortion. What did people do before birth control was accepted? They avoided sex at fetile times or knew what could very well happen and usually welcomed a new life. But now people can have sex much more often without worry… or so they believe. The other result of this mentality has been a lowering of sexual inhibitions because of course, “we’re protected”. This in turn means more risky behaviors that can and do end in pregnacies. Birth control has fueled our appetite for all things sexual because it has greatly lessened our inhibitions, we don’t think twice about getting someone or becoming pregnant.

Think back to before our schools were peddling birth control and teaching kids about sex as early as 3rd grade. I barely can because I was at that age when it began. How many unwanted pregnancies and thus abortions were there before the mid to late 60’s when all this stuff happened? How many are there now? Remeber the motto; “safe, legal and rare”? Safe? For who? Legal? How about moral? Rare? 45 million dead and counting.