Posted on 11/30/2021 5:03:31 AM PST by Scarlett156
On December 1 the U.S. Supreme Court will hear opening arguments for what could become a momentous case. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, Mississippi’s only abortion facility, sued the state over a 2018 law that has attempted to ban most abortions conducted after 15 weeks of gestation, which is just 13 weeks after conception. The regulation directly challenges the Supreme Court’s 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which prevents states from outlawing abortions before “viability”—the point at which a fetus could survive outside the womb, which is generally around 24 weeks of gestation.
(Excerpt) Read more at scientificamerican.com ...
* Since the 1970s there has been a revolution in birth control and now all kinds of birth control aids exist: IUD, oral contraceptives, progesterone implants, "morning after" pills, progesterone shots. All of these birth control devices were supposed to make abortion rare.
* However, the number of abortions per capita has soared in the USA, where supposedly everyone is liberated and has access to safe birth control options. (So has sexually transmitted disease.)
* So, in spite of the fact of birth control and advice about how to use it being absolutely EVERYWHERE, people get more and more abortions.
* Abortion makes it more difficult to conceive a pregnancy normally and carry it to term, especially if you've had more than one abortion, and a lot of gals do. It's so easy! (Even though taking an oral contraceptive every day is way easier, or, you know, just going out for some drinks and dancing and fun and then simply going home alone and getting some rest afterwards.)
So, why didn't any of these "pregnancy decisions" involve "Hm, I'd better bring some rubbers in case he doesn't have any"...? Or "Is it really a good idea to attend this orgy when I'm not sure I'm ok with getting pregnant?"
Today's modern women are FEELING ABANDONED in their pregnancy decisions. There simply AREN'T ENOUGH OPTIONS.
hmmm, there’s a choice as to how not to get pregnant...
who’d a thunk it.
People my age have had to absorb a lot of BS in their lives. This is the one that angers me the most, that all that birth control and sex education reduces “unplanned pregnancy.” Seems like just the opposite is true.
You do not want to carry a pregnancy to term, then do not start the process in the first place. What could be easier?
That basic decision seems to have become incredibly complicated, for some strange reason.
“A Timeline of How Abortion Laws Could Affect Pregnancy Decisions”
Sure, abortion is so much easier than any of the birth control products available.
And it’s in “scientific american”....!!!! :D the jokes just write themselves
I read years ago of an analysis of not just abortions but also unplanned pregnancies skyrocketing since abortion became not only legal (read: hardship cases) but also a woman's "right". The end result is an increase in the number of people who forego using real birth control because they feel like: "hey, if we create a pregnancy we'll just abort". Then when the baby is created some do abort, and some don't because they realize it's a baby. This leads to an increase in unwanted babies.
Thus, abortion exacerbates the very problem it's supposedly designed to reduce.
Women getting pregnant and gaming the cluster of males who could be the dad. Having an abortion if she can’t get the deal she wants. Having an unwanted, neglected kid if she does.
Crack babies.
People like one guy I got to know, who ran away from home at age 9. “The first thing that happened to me - the very first thing - was that I got beat up and raped. But even then I didn’t want to go home.”
Mom getting welfare for 10 kids, all by different guys. Neglecting all of them. Cops saying to me when I call them because kids broke into my house: “Why don’t you help her with those kids?” (Like I’m Florence Nightengale or something, while I was making less than $1000 a month at my job and she’s making over $1000 a month off welfare for about half her 10 kids. That she doesn’t take care of.)
Yeah, it really seems all these things have gotten worse since about 1976 or so. I think I’m willing to try the experiment of leaving the legality of abortion at the discretion of the states again.
Maybe someone should tell Scientific American that conception comes before gestation.
“after 15 weeks of gestation, which is just 13 weeks after conception.”
Oh well. Science you know.
I really had no idea it took that long!
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