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I'd rather have people using contraception, than demanding abortion "rights".

If folks contracept, they will abort.

Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the US Supreme Court decision that confirmed Roe v. Wade [U.S. decision to permit abortions] stated “in some critical respects, abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception… for two decades of economic and social developments, people have organized intimate relationships and made choices that define their views of themselves and their places in society, in reliance on the availability of abortion in the event that contraception should fail”.

The Supreme Court decision has made completely unnecessary, any efforts to “expose” what is really behind the attachment of the modern age to abortion. As the Supreme Court candidly states, we need abortion so that we can continue our contraceptive lifestyles. It is not because contraceptives are ineffective that a million and a half women a year seek abortions as back-ups to failed contraceptives. The “intimate relationships” facilitated by contraceptives are what make abortions “necessary”. “Intimate” here is a euphemism and a misleading one at that. Here the word “intimate” means “sexual”; it does not mean “loving and close”. Abortion is most often the result of sexual relationships in which there is no room for a baby, the natural consequence of sexual intercourse.

To support the argument that more responsible use of contraceptives would reduce the number of abortions, some note that most abortions are performed for “contraceptive purposes”. That is, few abortions are had because a woman has been a victim of rape or incest or because a pregnancy would endanger her life, or because she expects to have a handicapped or deformed newborn. Rather, most abortions are had because men and women who do not want a baby are having sexual intercourse and facing pregnancies they did not plan for and do not want. Because their contraceptive failed, or because they failed to use a contraceptive, they then resort to abortion as a back up. Many believe that if we could convince men and women to use contraceptives responsibly, we would reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies, and thus the number of abortions. Thirty years ago this position might have had some plausibility, but not now. We have lived for about thirty years with a culture permeated with contraceptive use and abortion; no longer can we think that greater access to contraception will reduce the number of abortions. Rather, wherever contraception is more readily available, the number of unwanted pregnancies and the number of abortions increase greatly.

I'd rather have people using contraception, than demanding abortion "rights".

Unfortunately, you can't separate the issues like that. Abortion and contraception are two sides of the same coin. They stem from a disordered mentality that wants to enjoy an act without consequences. Once one removes the procreative aspect of sexuality and makes it just about pleasure or erotic love, it is an easy step from there to the idea that the procreative aspect itself is an "evil" consequence of intercourse and anything that's done to preclude that "misfortune" is actually the lesser evil. Thus, the supression of life--or even the killing of a child in utero--is actually seen as closer to good than the "horror" of having an unplanned pregnancy.

That's the Culture of Death for you. And where does it leave us? With dying nations which will eventually tax themselves into oblivion paying out "benefits" to those who were too selfish to populate the next generation.