Posted on 08/20/2011 1:53:21 PM PDT by wagglebee
I can’t count the amount of times I’ve been asked what my stance is on contraception. It’s not breaking news that many oral contraceptives and some invasive barrier methods (IUD) have been proven to cause abortion, including the highly controversial ella and Plan B drugs, and I stand firmly against the use of anything that destroys a life created at conception. But what about contraception that prevents conception from taking place?
I’m not the only one who has gotten this question; people want to know how the pro-life movement as a whole feels about this.
In fact, the medical students we reach out to face this question on a daily basis.
This question is a hard one to answer, which is why many avoid it: What is the pro-life movement’s stance on contraception, including methods that prevent conception?
As a physician, what is the right decision to make when a woman asks for birth control? What if she is living below the poverty line, has 3 or 4 children, hasn’t obtained a high-school diploma, and is co-habiting with a man who needs to support her financially? Presumably, she’s aware of the possibility of pregnancy and could be afraid of how she will feed and clothe another child.
What do you say? What’s the pragmatic response here?
Here’s how I think that conversation should be started:
1) Birth Control, no matter what form, doesn’t prevent abortions. In fact, it provides a false sense of security.
The Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood’s own research arm, released study showing that condoms fail 14% of the time. That’s enough to provide some concern, especially when coupled with the Guttmacher’s own numbers showing that over half of all abortions are on women who were using some method of birth control. This is a cry in the face of pro-abortion propaganda claiming that if women had better access to birth control, abortions would become unnecessary.
Well, clearly not.
Contraception gives women a false sense of security, and condoms and birth control clearly can’t be relied on as a fail-proof method of stopping a pregnancy from occurring.
2) Birth control comes with it’s own complications and risks. It some cases, it’s deadly for both the child and mother.
Aside from condoms, oral and invasive methods of birth control come with their own complications. In addition to blood clots and strokes, chemical contraceptives have been proven to end the life of a preborn human mere hours or days after conception by thinning the uterine lining and making implantation more difficult for the developing person. Invasive methods that are implanted into your upper arm or uterus come with the same set of risks to both the mother and child. The most common form of hormonal contraception, the pill, has been categorized by the World Health Organization as a Group I carcinogen. That’s the highest possible ranking; cigarettes are also Group I.
One only has to read the inserts that come with chemical contraception, listen to commercials for hormonal birth control that spew out a long list of side effects, or glance at Facebook ads calling for women who took Yaz birth control pills to contact a law firm to join the lawsuit (google Yaz and lawsuit!) to grasp the unbelievable amount of life-altering consequences of imbibing hormonal birth control.
3) Condoms and birth control are everywhere. You can obtain them for free, yet the abortion and STD rate hasn’t fallen.
Planned Parenthood and county health departments have been giving out free condoms and birth control for years. Yet, the unplanned pregnancy, abortion, and STD rate in America has failed to fall and, in the case of STDs, has significantly increased. Despite this evidence, the Obama Administration just issued a new ruling forcing all health insurance plans to cover birth control with no deductible.
What’s even more scary is that Planned Parenthood knows this. They actually rely on the failure of the contraception they provide to increase their abortion profits.
4) Finally, and most importantly, birth control – in any form – is a Band-Aid.
It seems like the best way to answer the question regarding the pro-life stance on contraception is to emphasize helping women as a whole instead of handing out a temporary “fix”.
Dolling out free condoms isn’t social justice. Handing over a pack of pills to an uneducated mother living in poverty with a man who doesn’t respect her enough to marry her isn’t restoring proper relationships in her life. At the end of the day, what have you accomplished? You’ve just acknowledged her tragic situation by implying, “I don’t know how to help you”, or, “I don’t have time to help you, but here, use these and hope for the best.”
Protecting women from the scarring trauma of abortion and repairing broken relationships in her life seem to be the best way the pro-life movement can restore true social justice – Christian justice – to this woman’s life.
These are my thoughts on how we can make a real impact, but the pro-life movement needs to come together and agree on one answer to this question. Unity will only help us protect more women and the pre-born from the injustice of abortion.
Imho, your behaviour is over the line. An apology is in order.
You wrote:
“It’s up to you to prove what you said is true and not other posters.”
Nope. I have no obligations whatsoever hear other than obeying the board rules (which I have done).
“Otherwise you’re just blowing smoke.”
And you’re still apparently too lazy to use google or any other search engine.
“I ain’t your Momma. YOU provide a link. YOU prove what you stated was true. It has ALWAYS been that way on FR.”
False. It has NEVER been that way at FR. No one here is obligated to do anything other than obey the board rules. I see no reason to help those who apparently refuse to help themselves.
“It is up to individual posters to back up what they say. You are no different and do not get a “pass”.”
I don’t need your pass. I can do whatever I like within the board rules. I long ago realized that helping those who refused to think, refused to search for basic things, and who were liberals, was pointless.
Search all you like. I ain’t helping you. And you can do whatever you like with that pass of yours.
Can you point out where I or anyone else on this thread has uttered his proposed basis of argument?
Where have I said that it is okay to kill a child one day, or subsequent days after conception?
I NEVER did.
Straw man arguments (lying to promote ones own argument) are the cornerstone of trolling....along with the goal of obfuscation.
You wrote:
“FRiend, you are going overboard here.”
Not nearly.
“When you accused DJ of being a lib, well, you jumped the shark as they say.”
What you or “they” say is meaningless to me.
“Just agree to disagree.”
No. I choose to do whatever I like within the rules of the board - and there’s not a thing you can do about it.
You wrote:
“Imho, your behaviour is over the line.”
You’re entitled to your opinion. I could care less what you think on the issue.
“An apology is in order.”
I don’t think so. I don’t think DJ owes me an apology at all.
It is your obligation to prove that you told the truth. Since you cannot back up what you stated we assume that there is no such cite. FReepers ALWAYS ask for links and they are provided by posters. You cannot comply. That’s obvious.
You wrote:
“vladimir998 is ticked because I asked him for a cite to his post 220.”
Actually I am not ticked at all. That is the second or third times someone has completely made something up out of thin air toward me.
“That’s what all of this is about. He wants ME to search for links to prove him right.”
No. I do not need to be proved right because I already know I am right. And I did the search myself this morning n(again). I just think you shouldn’t be lazy. I have said that from early on.
“Why should I? I didn’t say it. If a poster cannot back up what they state then they should not make the assertion.”
I already know what I said is true. It is you who needs to shake off your laziness and do something.
It is customary to ping those which you speak of.
Do whatever you want FRiend, it was just an objective observation.
Nothing I can do about it? Are we being a wee bit defensive there?
You're wrong, I can sit here and watch you make a total ass of your self....I found out along time ago you can learn much from sitting back and just watching, it tells you everything you need to know.
That is of course, if you care to learn.
You wrote:
“It is your obligation to prove that you told the truth.”
No. I am under no obligations whatsoever except to follow the board rules.
“Since you cannot back up what you stated we assume that there is no such cite.”
You can assume whatever you like.
“FReepers ALWAYS ask for links and they are provided by posters.”
No, actually they are often no provided. I see no reason to aid you in your laziness. I also have no reason to believe you would even bother to read anything posted.
“You cannot comply. That’s obvious.”
No, actually it isn’t obvious and it is in fact untrue. I just think you should so it yourself. Use google.
On FR if you make a statement you'd better be prepared to defend it. You are unable to do so. There is no such statistic and your continued failure to provide it proves that.
I already know what I said is true. It is you who needs to shake off your laziness and do something.
I hope you aren't a lawyer. You tell the jury to get their own proof. Your excuses are absolutely ridiculous.
Did you make that point before in the thread (post 241)?
You wrote:
“Nothing I can do about it? Are we being a wee bit defensive there?”
Nope. It’s just a statement of fact.
“You’re wrong, I can sit here and watch you make a total ass of your self....I found out along time ago you can learn much from sitting back and just watching, it tells you everything you need to know.”
You can do whatever you like - within the rules of the board - and that’s the point.
“That is of course, if you care to learn.”
Already learned. That’s exactly why I am doing what I am doing.
No I didn’t, I like Andy Jackson.
You wrote:
“On FR if you make a statement you’d better be prepared to defend it. You are unable to do so.”
Nope. I can back up everything I said. I am just choosing not to do so.
“There is no such statistic and your continued failure to provide it proves that.”
No, all that is proved is that I am refusing to do any work for you.
“I hope you aren’t a lawyer. You tell the jury to get their own proof. Your excuses are absolutely ridiculous.”
I made no excuses. I simply gave a reason. It is still true.
And that is all this is about. Thanks for proving a point for me.
No problem. Is there anything else you need help with?
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