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To: NYer
Heroic Media is a non-profit whose mission is to educate the public in general and reach women facing unplanned pregnancies with life-affirming alternatives through the use of mass media, such as television commercials, internet outreach, and billboards.

Given that most women who have abortions made the deliberate choice to get pregnant with the intent of aborting the baby, waiting until women are pregnant is waiting too long.

Women need to be educated *before* they make the decision that the availability of abortion makes it okay to have unprotected sex. Accurate ads about abortion help with this education.

8 posted on 07/05/2013 2:22:21 PM PDT by exDemMom (Now that I've finally accepted that I'm living a bad hair life, I'm more at peace with the world.)
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To: exDemMom
Women need to be educated *before* they make the decision that the availability of abortion makes it okay to have unprotected sex.

I appreciate your good intentions here but many women do not pay attention to this information. They are caught up in the "heat of the moment". To cite an example, while filling out forms at an ob/gyn office, I could not help but overhear the "test result" phone calls being made to patients, by one of the staffers. The first caller was told she had an STD that could be treated but not cured. Apparently the patient was confused by the acronym. The staffer explained that STD meant she had a sexually transmitted disease. The caller was now upset and wanted to know how she contracted it! The staffer not only explained the process but also advised her to contact every partner with whom she had sexual relations because they also needed to be tested.

Meanwhile, here in upstate NY, after 10 pm, Trojan is advertising special lotions to "enhance the experience". These ads, IMO, should come with disclaimers advising consumers of the ramifications, like STDs.

23 posted on 07/05/2013 2:53:03 PM PDT by NYer ( "Run from places of sin as from the plague."--St John Climacus)
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To: exDemMom
"Given that most women who have abortions made the deliberate choice to get pregnant with the intent of aborting the baby..."

By my observations, this cannot be true. Most women who get abortions are not deliberately pregnant; they are deliberately cooperating in baby-making acts by their husbands or boyfriends (having live sperm injected into their genital tracts) but not intentionally getting 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 im 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 emales become contraceptive acceptors, their unwanted pregnancy rate, nonmarital childbearing rate, and abortion rate goes up -- not down.

26 posted on 07/05/2013 3:07:24 PM PDT by Mrs. Don-o ("During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell)
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