I know it’s been a while, and I’m not going to take the time now to fully address your post. I’m sure the same issues will arise in future discussions.
However, I will say that what you said there clarifies a lot. I have often wondered why pro-lifers promote the message that contraceptives are ineffective just as avidly as pro-aborts do, because it makes no sense. It is clear why pro-aborts promote that belief—abortion is exceedingly profitable—but not why pro-lifers would promote that exact same belief, because preventing pregnancy eliminates abortion. But now that you have informed me that the major pro-life organizations get their info from Guttmacher—well, that explains a lot. That is a serious problem for the pro-life movement. I will research this connection some more and think about it... as pro-lifers, we cannot afford to keep spreading the pro-abort profit-motivated message.
Think of this: most women who get abortions are not deliberately pregnant. True, they are deliberately cooperating in baby-making acts by their husbands or boyfriends (having live sperm injected into their genital tracts) --- but they have psychologically suppressed what should have been an overwhelming and lasting awareness: that this could get them pregnant.
That's the disconnect. That's why contraception triggers more abortions than it prevents. Contraception has two effects: the pharmaceutical one, and the psychological-behavioral one. The pharmaceutical one reduces the likelihood that any individual act of intercourse will result in pregnancy. The psychological-behavioral one vastly increases risk-taking by both males and females, by creating a cognitive disconnect between sex and fertility.
The second effect overwhelms the first effect.
Thus contraceptives increase unwanted pregnancies. This can be verified by the fact that whenever a new group of females become contraceptive acceptors, their unwanted pregnancy rate, nonmarital childbearing rate, and abortion rate goes up -- not down.
The first Birth Control clinics were set up in New York City approx. 90 years ago. At that time, the abortion rate was 17 per 100 live births.
Now, 2013, in New York contraceptives are available in every grocery store, every drug store, every corner bodega, approx. 25-33 cents apiece for latex, or $9 a month for the classic oral endocrine disruptor; free from all the the Borough health centers; free from the Student Health and Wellness office; urged upon them since they were 5th graders; exhorted upon female commuters by posters in the bus stops and subway platforms; couldn't be more available if they came with M&M's -- and the abortion rate is 70 per hundred live births.
While at the same time, the nonmarital birth rate is 70% of all births.
Yes, there are other factors. But this one fact is undeniable: the contraceptive mentality has been part of the problem, far more than part of the solution.