Editorial “Reducing abortion” points out:
“Over a four-year period, the Contraceptive Choice Project enrolled 9,256 women between the ages of 14 and 45. Participants were either low income, lacked health insurance or were considered at-risk for unintended pregnancy.
“The women were given their choice of contraceptives — long-acting reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices or implants, birth control pills, birth control shots (Depo-Provera), rings or patches.
“The results of the study, which were published last week in the journal, Obstetrics & Gynecology, were what one might expect:
“The birth rate among teenage girls from 2008 to 2010 who had access to free birth control was 6.3 per 1,000, — far below the national rate of 34.3 per 1,000.
“Abortion rates among among all participants ranged from 4.4 to 7.5 per 1,000 women over a two-year period. That compares to the national rate of 19.6 abortions per 1,000 women in 2008.”
WATCHDOG: Three wags of the tail to the Intell for the information and its observations.
Almost all of us love and most want children. (We have five.)
We desire, where possible, that children grow up in a homes with two parents, loving care, and adequate resources.
Almost none of us like abortions.
The consensus is that abortions should be avoided wherever practical and not be permitted during the last few months of carriage. “From 1975 through today, a majority of Americans have almost continually held that abortion should be legal ‘only under certain circumstances.’” –Gallup
It is important that the nation’s birthrate be maintained, if for no other reason than to provide financial underpinnings for Social Security and Medicare.
It isn’t an issue of whether or not women should have children; it is simply a matter of when and under what circumstances they should have children.
