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To: gleeaikin

So, what you’re telling me is that over X amount of time, because studies have start and end times, 1800 women had pregnancies.

A fertility rate of 20% over a year or two (whatever it was) seems really steep to me.

So, I repeat. Free birth control does NOT decrease the likelihood of young women ending up with children or with abortions, both of which with single women, will end of dramatically changing their lives.

So, your daughter has a 20% chance of getting pregnant. Do you tell her to PRACTICE that behavior?


78 posted on 10/24/2012 3:48:16 AM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! True supporters of our troops pray for their victory!)
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To: xzins; All

NO, NO, NO, you are completely misrepresenting/misunderstanding what I said. What happened is that the study subjects had around 1/5th the teen pregnancy and abortion rates of the national averages for those two items. The national average for each is 100% which might actually only be 4 or 5 pregnancies or abortions per hundred people. So that 20% would be around 1, but this is just illustrating how the number works, I don’t know what the national averages actually are.

So in the study cohort your daughter has only 1/5th the likelihood of getting pregnant compared to the national average.


79 posted on 10/25/2012 12:35:54 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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