Re your comment: "contraception is not the solution to the wickedness of abortion." & "Part two is how do you feel that abortion is part of human nature?"
>>> You are confused. I never said anything about 'abortion' being 'part of human nature'. My post: (http://www.siliconinvestor.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=17247701)
was titled "Morning-after pill out of the shadows?", and was a reprint of the Clarence Page column from The Washington Times... a conservative icon.
washingtontimes.com
>>> The argument I made was that using contraceptives to prevent unwanted pregnancies stands a lot better chance to reduce abortions than any moralistic hand-wringing... or fruitless appeals to celebacy. Working WITH human nature... and human needs, is a much more hopeful policy.
"The public should cry out — and not just women. Nearly half of this country's 2.7 million unintended pregnancies per year result from contraceptive failure, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. With 1.4 million abortions every year, we ought to have some room to discuss a scientific breakthrough that could cut those numbers in half."
"California and Washington have become the first states to allow pharmacists to provide prescriptions for emergency contraceptives after a brief patient consultation. Some other states have taken steps in the same direction. Yet, most American women do not know that the morning-after pill exists, according to a survey of 1,000 women by the not-for-profit Kaiser Family Foundation in 2000. Forty-two percent of those surveyed confused emergency contraceptives with RU-486, the abortion pill."
"In case you didn't know, emergency contraceptives, also known as "the morning-after pill," essentially offer a higher dose of the active ingredients of conventional birth control pills. They must be taken within 72 hours of unprotected sex to prevent pregnancy. The abortion pill, RU-486, provides a nonsurgical abortion up to seven weeks after the last menstrual period of women who know they are pregnant."
"Some anti-abortion groups, including the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, have opposed morning-after pills because of the possibility that a fertilized egg might be destroyed. Yet, even some abortion opponents agree that the possibility that a fertilized egg is destroyed pales next to the certainty that millions of abortions could be prevented by avoiding the pregnancy in the first place."
"That's a major reason why "morning-after" pills have been accepted more rapidly in other industrialized countries since they first were approved for use in the late 1990s."
>>> Or, do you believe that contraception is 'murder'? |
