Re: Abortion

On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 21:06:14 -0800, "David V." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

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

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

==>That is not as you said. Since it seems you have no 
==>intention of entering into an honest debate, I shall not 
==>attempt one with you.

                What are you talking about?  I said

==>>=>The fact is that that, in North America, anyway,
==>>=>tens of millions of women use birth control, while the
==>>=>abortions in any year number in the mere thousands, or
==>>=>perhaps tens of thousands.

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

                I may have underestimated the actual number
                of abortions, but the statistics bear out what
                I said, namely, that the number of abortions
                is small, compared with the number of women
                who use birth control.

                And certainly none of those figures supports the
                original poster's contention that many -- or even any
                -- women use abortion as a form of birth control.



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