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- From: cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
- Message-ID: <13960@optilink.COM>
- Date: 19 Jan 93 19:56:18 GMT
- References: <Jan.15.07.43.01.1993.21083@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1993Jan18.165516.5248@Princeton.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan18.165516.5248@Princeton.EDU>, niepornt@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (David Marc Nieporent) writes:
- > The only immature choice I see is carrying a pregnancy to term, and then
- > keeping a child you can't care for.
-
- You don't see abortion as primary birth control as being a little
- immature?
-
- > As an aside, if so many of the right wing weren't adamantly opposed to
- > birth control, too, this debate would be much less important. Because
- > there is a *direct* inverse correlation between the availability of
- > birth control and the abortion rate.
- >
- > David M. Nieporent | "We don't need anymore [sic] wretched refuse. It's
-
- Really? Birth control was effectively unavailable in this country
- to teenagers in the 1950s. It was difficult or impossible for even
- married couples to get, until the 1960s. What happened to the abortion
- rate after birth control became available? It went up dramatically,
- as did the illegitimacy rate. Now, I won't claim that one caused
- the other, because I'm quite sure that's not true. But your claim,
- that there is a "*direct* inverse correlation" is demonstrably
- false.
-
- Birth control education, pills, condoms, etc., are readily available
- throughout the U.S. now. When are we going to see the unwanted
- pregnancy rate drop to the level it was at in 1960, when these
- items were rare, or usually illegal?
-
- --
- Clayton E. Cramer {uunet,pyramid}!optilink!cramer My opinions, all mine!
- "When freedom destroys order, order will destroy freedom." -- Eric Hoffer
- Not a goal, just a statement of reality.
-