Abortion isn't being used as birth control.

[PhaedraMcSpiffy]

Guys, I have SHOCKING news! rolleyes

adeleidenow.com.au | Abortion not used as birth control.

A study at a clinic in Australia revealed that 62% of patients at a clinic were using contraception when they got pregnant. Now, before we give the lifers a chance to say that that means 48% of women are having abortions instead of using birth control, check this out:

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A Flinders University study of 965 women over 30* who used Adelaide's largest abortion clinic found 62 per cent were using contraception when they became pregnant.

Nursing and Midwifery researcher Wendy Abigail said the vast majority of the remainder of women also had not wanted to become pregnant.

She said they were not using contraception for dozens of reasons such as: cultural bans, thinking they could never have children, having been raped or having had what was thought to have been "permanent" birth-control surgery.

Ms Abigail blamed primarily male politicians for perpetuating the myth that women used termination as a convenience rather than for emotional and medical reasons.

So even if she wasn't using birth control it's not like she meant to go out there and get pregnant. And the "inconvenience" thing has always bothered me. 1. It implies that pregnancy is just a mild annoyance. 2. It assumes that having an abortion is convenient.

*And before the lifers can say that this means that only women over 30 who have abortions are responsible and the the rest are selfish teen/college kid whores: 70% of those under 30 used birth control! So much for that myth.  

[Jailbait Queen]

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[Munkers]

The Guttmacher Institute has had some contraceptive fact sheets that pretty much show the same thing in terms of the number of women who DO use contraceptive contrary to this idea that we're all tramps who can't keep our legs closed or bother to prevent pregnancy.

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[Jaaten Syric]

PhaedraMcSpiffy

A study at a clinic in Australia revealed that 62% of patients at a clinic were using contraception when they got pregnant. Now, before we give the lifers a chance to say that that means 48% of women are having abortions instead of using birth control, check this out:

I considered pointing out that this would mean that 38% of abortions occurred where no contraception was used but then I remembered that lifers are, as a rule, pretty terrible at math. xP

That said. Great news. This will be an amazing assett if Eras (or his flunkies) ever shows back up and his documented hypocrisy when it comes to AGI seems inappropriate or useless. 3nodding  

[_Morgane Fay_]

Jaaten Syric

PhaedraMcSpiffy

A study at a clinic in Australia revealed that 62% of patients at a clinic were using contraception when they got pregnant. Now, before we give the lifers a chance to say that that means 48% of women are having abortions instead of using birth control, check this out:

I considered pointing out that this would mean that 38% of abortions occurred where no contraception was used but then I remembered that lifers are, as a rule, pretty terrible at math. xP

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Bad Jaaten. Baaaaad.


Good source! Though I must say that I always feel annoyed when I get pushed into the defensive "but women do not "abuse" their rights!1!1!!" - if it's a right, it's impossible to "abuse". If it's a right, then it must be considered morally neutral and no-one should care if someone gets 1, 5 or 10 abortions in their lifetime. (I mean, outside of the whole it being safer if you manage to avoid unnecessary invasive surgery thing).  

[_Morgane Fay_]

By the by, did Eras get a permaban for his incessant trolling and unwarranted, deeply personal attacks or did he simply burn out and disappear?  

[Munkers]

Jaaten Syric

I considered pointing out that this would mean that 38% of abortions occurred where no contraception was used but then I remembered that lifers are, as a rule, pretty terrible at math. xP

And even that wouldn't be the whole picture because that whole group isn't playing the "oh I know I should be using something, but it's such a hassle" game. People who have been told that they're infertile, are going through menopause, were assaulted or bullied out of contraception due to intimate partner violence, etc.

Not that lifers give a damn about IPV or legitimate medical concerns, but you know...  

[Jaaten Syric]

_Morgane Fay_

By the by, did Eras get a permaban for his incessant trolling and unwarranted, deeply personal attacks or did he simply burn out and disappear?

Multiple permas, actually.

And the great part was he started blaming them on 'gaia's liberal moderator staff'.  

[_Morgane Fay_]

Jaaten Syric

_Morgane Fay_

By the by, did Eras get a permaban for his incessant trolling and unwarranted, deeply personal attacks or did he simply burn out and disappear?

Multiple permas, actually.

And the great part was he started blaming them on 'gaia's liberal moderator staff'.

How uncreative. And unsurprising, of course.  

[Munkers]

Jaaten Syric

Multiple permas, actually.

And the great part was he started blaming them on 'gaia's liberal moderator staff'.

I'd laugh, but that actually made me die a little inside.