Posted on 01/12/2005 2:21:55 AM PST by risk
Fewer women using birth control Experts see troubling spike in new numbers By Ceci Connolly The Washington Post Updated: 11:30 p.m. ET Jan. 3, 2005 At a time when the medical community has been heartened by a decline in risky sexual behavior by teenagers, a different problem has crept up: More adult women are forgoing birth control, a trend that has experts puzzled -- and alarmed about a potential rise in unintended pregnancies. Buried in the government's latest in-depth analysis of contraceptive use was the finding that the number of women who had sex in the previous three months but did not use birth control rose from 5.2 percent in 1995 to 7.4 percent in 2002. That means that as many as 11 percent of all women are at risk of unintended pregnancy at some point during their childbearing years (ages 15 to 44).
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Do you think "Experts" would be so concerned if it fewer young men were taking steroids?
This is a bizarre article. It's downright twisted.
I'm surprised that Ceci (guest babbling head on Fox News Sunday) didn't offer up her own behavior, yea or nay, to lend that personal touch to this news report.
Did they consider some "wives" may want to have children?????
As usual, Ceci Connolly presents the liberal political side of the issue, i.e., bashing the health care system for copayments on BCPs. However, unless I missed it, there does not appear to be one shred of evidence in this article supporting the contention that these pregnancies would be unintended. There is a lot of conjecture based on the author's biases but no evidence I could see in the article that she knows whether this in intentional or unintentional. But let me go out on a limb here. I imagine she would also support the position that all these pregnancies that she somehow knows are unwanted should be aborted.
I guess the alternative, "That means that as many as 11 percent of all women intend to get pregnant at some point during their childbearing years (ages 15 to 44)." is unthinkable!
Fewer women using birth control
My alternate title would have read: "If Caipirabob wasn't married, he would be, but soon!"
The article is complaining that we men get off scott free because condoms are given away. I suppose they want to start giving IUDs, RU486, the pill, and diaphrams to to women. Someone should be lecturing them on expiration dates nature attaches to human fertility. Men need the lecture, too. People should remember that lasting joy can come with the family life that results. Our public schools and universities make raising families sound onerous.
BUMP!
Not a good sign with unmarried teenaged girls doing this. Or any women just seeking a life of welfare benefits and other government handouts.
I know married couples who are trying to get pregnant. 9/11 caused a lot of people to postpone having a baby, but now they seem to be trying to catch up.
There are also folks who have abandoned birth control to put it in God's hands.
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