Birth Control and Abortion

Be wary when you hear the abortion industry suggesting ways to reduce abortion.

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Does Planned Parenthood really have any interest in reducing the number of abortions? Should anybody take them seriously when they pretend to have a plan for eliminating one of their primary income streams? Birth control is not the magic key to ending abortion and the abortion industry knows that full well.

Planned Parenthood lists on their website that the #1 way to prevent abortion is to "Make contraception (birth control) more easily available." Isn't it odd that the largest abortion provider in the world, an organization that makes multiple millions of dollars selling abortion each year has a list of suggestions on their website for eliminating abortion? Is this a joke? Does anyone honestly believe that Planned Parenthood wants to eliminate abortion? It's like believing that big tobacco companies really want everyone in America to quit smoking. Just for fun, can anyone guess what Planned Parenthood lists as the worst way to eliminate abortion? The worst way to eliminate abortion, according to Planned Parenthood is to make it illegal. This would all be laughable if the results were not so tragic.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood's own research organization tells us that 54% of all abortions happen despite contraception use. Only 8% of women having abortions have never used birth control, and 90% of the women most likely to have an abortion are on birth control. The Centers for Disease Control says, "induced abortions usually result from unintended pregnancies, which often occur despite the use of contraception."

Birth control has done little if anything to solve the abortion problem in America. For the last 25 years, more than a million lives are lost to abortion each year. It could just as easily be argued that the huge boom in sexual education and contraceptive availability has merely fueled an increasingly sex-obsessed society by convincing young people that sex can be enjoyed without consequence. This is not the case.

Eighty-two percent of all abortions (1.07 million a year) are performed on unmarried women. The way to eliminate these abortions is not by handing out more condoms. It is by educating these people about what abortion actually does, and teaching them to abstain from sex until they're ready to deal with a potential pregnancy.

Planned Parenthood laughs at the notion that teenagers can be taught to be abstinent, all the while telling teenagers that they can't. Why should we trust Planned Parenthood? Sexually active teenagers is exactly what they want. It's good for business. What's the bottom line? The only organizations that believe birth control is the best way to eliminate abortion are the organizations who have no interest in eliminating abortion at all.

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1 Comments on Birth Control and Abortion

Rebecca (Jan 26, 2009 / 20:17 CST)

I think that it is important also to understand that some forms of birth control, including intra-uterine contraceptives, aren’t well understood. I have done some research on this form of birth control and have found so many different “reasons” why it works (from it being effectively a barrier method to it being actively abortive) that I find my head spinning. We also need to be careful to instruct young women (and their husbands) in the risks of the various hormone therapies available (the pill, the patch, Nuvo-ring, etc). Many of these can lead to heart and nerve disorders because our bodies aren’t meant to take in the amount of hormone necessary in order to achieve the desired result. Plus, as one article on this site stated, the use of birth control and abortion can reduce fertility later on.

I think that we need to be careful to express that this isn’t judgment on the part of Christians and other pro-life and right to life individuals. I am becoming sickened by the number of churches in my area that refuse to take a stand against abortion for fear of “hurting somebody.” My opinion is that you can’t open your doors for healing unless you first condemn the act itself.

I am glad that there are more and more organizations and websites available to help educate young people about their options. But where are all the women?

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