Re: Abortion

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:19:40 -0800, "David V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

[snip]
==>1.3 million abortions were performed in the USA in the year 
==>2000.

                Still, a drop in the bucket compared to the
                number of women who use some form
                of birth control, as I said.

[snip]

==>Remember that not all abortions are recorded. Several 
==>states, and many doctors, do not report abortions.

                And why should they?  In any case, that's
                unlikely to be a significant differential.

IG:
==>> This does not lend itself to the conclusion that "many"
==>> women use abortion as as "alternative form of birth
==>> control."

==>Many do. The majority does not.

                The GREAT majority does not.  The CDC item you
                ciited notes that, "Approximately half the women who
                had an abortion were obtaining an abortion for the
                first time."

                Obviously, women obtaining an abortion for the first
                time cannot possibly be accused of using the procedure
                as an alternative form of birth control.  Using the
                CDC figures, only about 500,000 women in the U.S.
                received a second or subsequent abortion during the
                reporting period (1997).

                Again, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the
                women using birth control -- and, of course, there's
                no evidence whatsover that ANY of those women
                regarded abortion as an alternative form of birth
                control.

                And that makes that particular claim utter bullshit,
                if not deliberately misleading misinformation designed
                to shock the public's sensibilities to promote an
                anti-choice agenda.

                It's also worth mentioning that the CDC notes that
                "the rate of legal abortions for women in the
                reproductive years (15-44) was 20 per 1,000 women."

                That means that the rate of women having abortions in
                the United Snakes each year is two per cent -- again,
                a drop in the bucket, and hardly supportinve of  the
                anti-choice cabal's favourite fiction, namely, that
                hordes of careless, irresponsible welfare slatterns
                are jamming the abortion clinics because they're too
                fucking lazy to take a pill.




--
Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner
than the birth of one more unwanted child.