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- From: regard@hpsdde.sdd.hp.com (Adrienne Regard)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Abortions should be rare
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- Date: 27 Jan 93 16:46:09 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.115252.2129@guvax.acc.georgetown.edu> <1993Jan25.195007.11399@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> <1993Jan27.030431.20479@wuecl.wustl.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.030431.20479@wuecl.wustl.edu> dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
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- >It seems to me that
- >education (imparting of knowledge) can only help solve a
- >problem if the root cause of that problem is ignorance (lack
- >of knowledge). I am far from convinced that the source of
- >the high abortion rate in America is ignorance about sex,
- >pregnancy, and childbirth. Foolish behavior in spite of
- >knowledge explains the situation far better for me.
-
- Oh, Don, I'm disappointed in you. I've posted in the past the results of
- Ortho Novum's survey from last year showing that over 80% of adult women
- ages 15-44 use contraception of some type. And that, factoring the known
- failure rate of the various methods against the population groups shows that
- the pregnancy rate, from birth control failures alone, was almost twice
- that of the abortion rate. Meaning that each and every abortion last year
- *could* have been the result, pure and simple, of a woman who followed
- through on her original intent not to have a child when her birth control
- failed.
-
- Now, I wouldn't go so far as to say 'all', by any means. But here you
- are blasting women who have abortions as 'foolish' above, when we already
- know that a huge number of women have suffered birth control failures, and
- that a huge number of women -- the vast majority in fact -- do use birth
- control devices.
-
- Sure, there are some foolish people. Sure, there are some people who be-
- have foolishly. But it looks to me like *most* people are already being
- something less than foolish, and don't deserve this remark.
-
- Adrienne Regard
-