Jack Bauer said:
BrooksBearLives said:
Jack Bauer said:
BrooksBearLives said:
YoakDaddy said:
Waco1947 said:
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BrooksBearLives said:
They're going to happen either way. I think they should be as rare as possible, but safe.
Shootings are going to happen anyway, let anyone who wants a gun get one.
People are going to drive drunk anyway so let anyone who want to drink and drive do so.
Rare! You missed the word Rare! How do you make abortions rare?
How do make abortions rare? A respect for all life which is a topic you never advocated from your pulpit.
#1 most effective way to make them rare is to limit the amount of unwanted pregnancies from happening in the first place. Free/cheap birth control and actual comprehensive sex education. The return on investment there is astronomical. A
Contraception is universally available. The CDC said in a study that 99% of sexually active women have used contraception at some point in their lifetime. This is not a main reason for unintended pregnancies.
Come on. You can look deeper at the data.
Contraception being "universally available" is a new thing. Also, "universally" and "available" don't mean "universally available." How many times have the GOP fought the ACA citing a need for exceptions for religious puposes of providing birth control alone?
But in either case, you can track and see how the increase in availability nation-wide has correlated with a drop in abortions.https://medicine.wustl.edu/news/access-to-free-birth-control-reduces-abortion-rates/
In EVERY SINGLE COMMUNITY where contraception was made free and available, abortion rates have dropped. I challenge you to find an exception.
I am sure a curse-filled, hateful response is to follow but...
CDC Study on HOW a woman got unintentionally pregnant:
-almost half of women assumed they couldn't get pregnant (44 percent) THIS IS WHERE EDUCATION COMES IN.
-didn't mind getting pregnant (23 percent)
THIS IS WHERE EDUCATION COMES IN
-didn't plan to have sex (14 percent)
THIS IS WHERE EDUCATION COMES IN
-or worried about the side effects of birth control (16 percent).
THIS IS WHERE EDUCATION COMES IN.
"I didn't have access to birth control" is not even a major reason.
First off, please cite your sources
Secondly, the birth control HAS to be accompanied with education. I have been consistent on that (as is all literature). The education piece is where the need and effectiveness of birth control is made clear. Almost half of women didn't know they could get pregnant?!?!? How could we fix that?
Didn't plan on having sex? That's why you take the pill, you take care of the planning UP FRONT.
Side-effects of the pill? Education AND access to birth control (more than one kind).
I am against abortion. You cannot find a single case where education AND access to healthcare/birth control has been increased and abortions/pregnancies overall have increased. You cannot find a SINGLE one.
We don't really disagree on this. You're just being reflexively obtuse because you hate liberals so much you would never admit one could be right about something.