[Mrs. Don-o]

Your idea that contraception reduces unintended pregnancies is a perfectly reasonable inference from pharmacological evidence, but not a reasonable inference from societal evidence. Your conclusion is obvious, common-sensical, and factually incorrect.

This is because contraception has two principal results, one intended and one unintended.

A contraceptive reduces the odds of any particular act of intercourse resulting in pregnancy.

But the easy availability of contraceptives spawns a mentality which holds that intercourse, once intended for procreation and for pleasure, is now intended for pleasure and nothing else.

The first (intended) consequence has resulted in fewer births per x number of acts of intercourse, albeit with a 3% - 30% typical-use failure rate (Link about contraceptive effectiveness, a disturbing one if you're naive about this subject). The second (unintended) consequence has been a massive increase in the frequency of intercourse between people who are not married to each other, hardly even like each other, are not building a life together, and/or, even if married, have no intention of being co-responsible for a baby.

Altogether, 53% of unplanned pregnancies occur to women who are using contraceptives (that includes the Pill, condoms, jellies, jams, and sprays), but nearly 100% of these women are surprised, affronted, feel angry, betrayed, etc. by the now-shocking fact that sex led to pregnancy.

Contraceptives were the paraphernalia of Ye Olde Sexual Revolution. That's old news. That happened 50 years ago. What's happened since --- the 50 million American abortions and the 30% American illegitimacy rate (in the most contraceptive - subsidized communities, 70% illegitimacy) is the result.

[HiTech RedNeck]

And the irony is there are other couples who are doing everything short of whistling Yankee Doodle on their heads to conceive somehow, anyhow.

[AnAmericanMother]

C.S. Lewis noted many years ago that the widespread availability of contraception removed one of the principal arguments (from charity) against indiscriminate sex.

And thus made indiscriminate sex more and more common.

[a fool in paradise]

Thanks for your post.

The sexual revolution wasn't about sexual freedom. It was about REVOLUTION. It was designed to “smash monogamy”, “smash the patriarchy”, and “smash the state”.

Destruction of the “nuclear family” has largely been achieved.

Free love isn't free, it leaves a trail of human debris.

Socialists don't care about broken eggs when they are making omelets.

[CyberAnt]

I wasn’t talking about “unintended pregnancies”, I was talking about women who think sleeping around is just part of the game.

However, those women don’t seem to realize the consequences of that action.

The reason is .. instant gratification is all they are looking for .. and a child was never part of the picture.

So, therefore, it was HER responsibility to protect herself.

Then, the only thing a selfish person thinks of doing is getting rid of the evidence that she’s sleeping around. And, this is the main reason abortion is so popular in the first place. But, if she had used protection, nobody would have known she was sleeping around; and she wouldn’t now be contemplating an abortion.

Plus, the best part of using birth control - about 99% less chance of breast cancer.