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To: Greg or e who wrote (68293)	8/21/2015 8:26:20 AM
From: Solon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

"So using your own figures, women who are using contraceptives still have a 15 percent chance of having an abortion" You must have been a miserable failure at mathematics! What I said was: "In contrast, the evidence clearly shows that contraceptive use works. On a personal level, it reduces the probability of having an abortion by an estimated 85%. And at the program level, publicly subsidized family planning services in the United States have been shown to have helped women prevent 20 million pregnancies over the last 20 years, nine million of which would have been expected to end in abortion. Indeed, in the United States today, the small fraction of women—some 7%—who are sexually active and at risk of unintended pregnancy but do not practice contraception are responsible for almost half of the unintended pregnancies and nearly half of the abortions. The overwhelming majority of sexually active women in this country seek to prevent unintended pregnancy by practicing contraception; however, women, their partners and technology are not perfect. Therefore, one of the key challenges in further reducing the abortion rate in the United States (and in many other countries around the world) is to increase contraceptive access across the entire society and to facilitate more consistent and more effective contraceptive use." Message 30195725 Now I don't know what the "probability of having an abortion" is....but it ain't 100%! You got rocks in your head, son! "some 7%—who are sexually active and at risk of unintended pregnancy but do not practice contraception are responsible for almost half of the unintended pregnancies and nearly half of the abortions." Talking to you is like talking to a brick. You could care less about the facts. All you want is to force women to obey your commands--the imaginary commands of the imaginary thing you work for. OUCH!