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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (15456)	1/16/1998 3:01:00 PM
From: Grainne	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

Hi, Mephisto!! I think Catholic women may take birth control pills less frequently than Protestants, but I don't know that for a fact. A clear majority of AMERICAN Catholics are "cafeteria" Catholics, in that they support the right of women to use birth control, and pick and choose what they choose from the Vatican's "menu" of Catholic beliefs and behaviors, which displeases greatly the more conservative international Church. I do think that among young girls, Protestant or atheist/pagans may be more upfront about the need for birth control when they decide to become sexually active. In other words, because of religious ideals, very young, unmarried Catholic girls may be more hesitant to use birth control when they start their first sexual relationship. All over the Western world, children become sexually active, on the average, at fifteen-and-a-half. In Europe, there is more blunt sex education in the schools, and a more open attitude towards sexuality, so European children plan ahead, and have a much lower pregnancy rate than American teenagers. Here, the religious right has influenced how sex education is taught to some degree, and the fact that the Puritans came to America has carried down through the generations in how silent we tend to be with our children about their sexuality. (I realize I'm making gross generalizations, but this is what the statistics show.) Perhaps the Catholics on this thread, of which there are many, have some comments about all this!!! 43% seems like a high number for abortions, but a woman's reproductive life is very long. Most women are very reticent to discuss their abortion history, understandably. I think this is something that makes some women sad for a very long time. One of the things this study in U.S. News and World Report says is that women in school have more abortions than women who have ended their educations. And most late-term abortions happen in very young women who simply are in such denial that they are pregnant, or so fearful of parental reaction, that they hide their conditions until very late.