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- From: smezias@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU (Stephen J. Mezias)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Some more NFP discussion
- Message-ID: <35776@rnd.GBA.NYU.EDU>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:15:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan22.173100.21195@cs.yale.edu> <1993Jan23.061944.2743@noao.edu>
- Organization: NYU Stern School of Business
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- In article <1993Jan23.061944.2743@noao.edu> forgach@noao.edu (Suzanne
- Forgach) evades giving statistics regarding NFP, how unusual!
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- There are two good reasons why Frau Forgach will not give statistics.
- (1) If abstention during fertile periods is assiduous, the rhythm
- method, as they ysed to call it when I was a Roman Catholic, has some
- modest success at preventing pregnancy. However, in actual practice
- the effectiveness of this method is low for behavioral reasons. The
- presumption of abstinence during fertile periods tends to not be
- descriptive of actual behavior. Thus, like many other of Frau
- Forgach's beliefs, her advocacy of NFP is based on an archaic
- behavioral code [tm]. Just as she would force all women who become
- pregnant to bear their children, she would also prefer that all men
- and women have sex and birth control according to her beliefs. For
- this reason, she tries to avoid publicizing that NFP is relatively
- ineffective as a birth control method. (2) NFP actually leads to more
- birth defects. Pregnancy that occurs at the ends of the fertile
- period, more likely under NFP, are more likely to result in birth
- defects. In fact, I believe this may be a possible explaination of
- Frau Forgach's peculiar belief structure. I wonder if PHoney's and
- DODIE's parents practiced NFP?
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