Report Shows Contraception Failure, 54% Used Before Abortion
The Guttmacher report shows “54 percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method *usually condom or the pill) during the month they became pregnant.” These figures are similar to those of a report in Spain showing abortions doubling despite increased family planning promotion.
Typical Contraceptive Failure Rates
* Implants and injectables 2-4%
* Oral contraceptives 9%
* Diaphragm and cervical cap 13%
* Male condom 15%
* Periodic abstinence 22%
* Withdrawal 26%
* Spermicides 28%
Who is Most at Risk for Contraceptive Failure?
* Cohabiting women.
* Unmarried women.
* Women who live below 200% of the poverty level.
* Black women.
* Hispanic women.
* Adolescents.
* Women in their 20's.
Who's having abortions (marital status)?
64.4% of all abortions are performed on never-married women; Married women account for 18.4% of all abortions and divorced women obtain 9.4%.
Who's having abortions (age)?
52% of women obtaining abortions in the U.S. are younger than 25: Women aged 20-24 obtain 32% of all abortions; Teenagers obtain 20% and girls under 15 account for 1.2%.
Why women have abortions
1% of all abortions occur because of rape or incest; 6% of abortions occur because of potential health problems regarding either the mother or child, and 93% of all abortions occur for social reasons (i.e. the child is unwanted or inconvenient).
On these matters -- contraception and abortion, we share common beliefs, DJ, red, wagge, trish.
Kaila -- it's not "indoctrination" by any means but most of us look around at society and at the recent ills and think this harkens back to us forgetting some basic moral rights and wrongs
Yes, you are saying it's morally ok to use contraception, but you can surely see that it is then a simple step to say it's ok for abortions (to "correct" the "mistake") and then that it's necessary for the welfare state to step in and pay unwed mothers).
Surely you see that this leads us to the situation we are in now where there are women in their twenties who have children from different men just for the welfare? Where men no longer think of their responsibilities? Where marriage is just a piece of paper to be torn up when needed and redefined to be a contract between two men or two women or 3 men and 2 women or whatever?
Your case may be very purely in the bounds of marriage but we talk of the general moral acceptability and where this has led us as a society.