Debunking Birth Control Myths - Episode 37 Excerpt - Life Report

Josh provides documented evidence from abortion advocates proving that access to birth control will NOT significantly reduce abortions!

Documentation Links:
- According to the CDC, Induced abortions usually result from unintended pregnancies, which often occur despite the use of contraception. ("Abortion Surveillance --- United States, 2000."
http://tinyurl.com/4m7m3)

- According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, 54% of women having abortions used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant. 13% of the pill users and 14% of the condom users reported correct use. ("Induced Abortion in the United States," Alan Guttmacher Institute. http://tinyurl.com/5wley)

- According to pro-abortion feminist Katha Pollitt, abortion will always be needed. The fact is, there will never be zero abortions. Half the women who abort are using birth control already. Even in small, tidy, prosperous Sweden and the Netherlands, there are abortions. ("Prochoice Puritans": http://tinyurl.com/c9ajgx)

- Jane Galt, who describes herself as being pro-abortion choice, uses Planned Parenthoods own research to back up her argument that access to contraception is not a major factor in teen pregnancy. And thats the best study Planned Parenthood can come up with, the one that is probably the outlier on the normally distributed bell curve of such study outcomes. ("Response to Peter Northup, and why I continue to believe that contraceptive availability is not a major factor in teen pregnancy."
http://tinyurl.com/d2dbed)

- That reminds me of another study in which women were given free emergency contraception with education on how to use it. At the end of the study period, the pregnancy rate compared to the control group did not decrease at all.
"Direct access to emergency contraception through pharmacies and effect on unintended pregnancy and STIs: a randomized controlled trial."
http://tinyurl.com/d3xddo

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[devil238]

Oh goody, a podcast devoted to telling women how to live their lives. How droll.

[LifeReport]

Actually, my podcast is more dedicated to telling pro-lifers to stop being jerks and to not use faulty arguments. We also talk about how to find common ground with people that disagree with you, so we can have effective dialogue.

[frank2033]

Contracetio such as IUD, pill, shot or patch, are abortificients. They work in three ways :stop the women's ovulation, make it more difficult for th sperm to implant in the egg, the third way is to make the uterus wall so thin so that when the first two methods fail and conception does occur the embryo can't implant and later expelled. Contraception only leads to promiscuity, that's why when there is increased use of contraception there's inreased pregnancy and abortion

[LifeReport]

Hi Frank. I'm with you on the IUD, but whether the pill is an abortifacient or not is still up in the air. The science is inconclusive, so we should be careful about how we phrase this. While the pill MIGHT do that, it hasn't been proven yet, and the latest studies shed some doubt on it, so we should probably not say the pill DEFINITELY kills babies. Does that make sense? We'll be doing a podcast soon talking about this in more detail...

[agamemnon76]

If this show had been completely honest about the subject the claim they would make is not that contraceptives are ineffective at preventing pregnancy but that teens are unlikely to use contraceptives consistently and the key to contraceptive effectiveness is consistent use.
That is the theme of all of the studies on the right, except #3 which provides no evidence.

From #1:

Among those women, 76% of pill users and 49% of condom users report having used their method inconsistently. . ."

[neverfearchrisishere]

@prolifepinay abstinence fails because people aren't made to be abstinent. So when a significant % of teens that have only been taught abstinence inevitably fail, they have all the worst consequences of unprotected sex.

The stats show that the result of this is that abstinence only is worse at protecting from unwanted consequences of sex than a more rounded sexual health education. More Pregnancies, more STD's.

People are very bad at maintaining abstinence.

[prolifepinay]

@agamemnon76 Which tells me that in REAL LIFE, people don't use these methods consistently and correctly and therefore, their lives are at risk and it is IRRESPONSIBLE to promote these methods esp to teens. 99% effective is simply untrue in real life and has resulted in millions of deaths.

Whereas, abstinence has killed no one from HIV/AIDS.

[missfreedomwoman]

Excellent!!!

[checkyoursources]

In the US it is estimated that 52% of unintended pregnancies result from couples not using contraception in the month the woman got pregnant, and 43% result from inconsistent or incorrect contraceptive use; only 5% result from contraceptive failure, according to a report from the Guttmacher Institute.

[mixxycan]

Also, that same study that you cited clearly stated that the figure of 54% of women who were using some form of contraception did NOT account for correct usage - meaning that some women who were using contraception were probably using it incorrectly and could again benefit from increased awareness and education about contraceptive methods.

[mixxycan]

We would all like to reduce abortion numbers. But what I don't follow is how you think that the 46% of women who were not using birth control would not amount to a "drastic change." Encouraging those 46% of women about the types of contraception and their correct use would not be a worthy pursuit that WOULD result in much fewer abortions? Come on, you're clearly trying to get the numbers to fit your pre-determined belief on the matter.

[psykkodukk]

I don't work for PP, so I really couldn't offer you any further insight other than directing you to their website.

The only other thing I can think of off hand that might help would be making sterilizations safer, more affordable, and more accessible to people who want them. Though I doubt too many people would be willing to take such a permanent step.

On a side note, it's difficult to get sterilized if you're under about 35 and don't already have children. I know, I've tried.

[LifeReport]

Yes, I think I pretty much agree with everything you just said. (although I haven't seen all the research from both sides on comp. sex ed as it related to abortion.) So as long as we're clear that to make abortion "rare," it will take more than just contraception access, I think that would move this debate a notch further. I would be interested in hearing other ways PP thinks would make abortion rare, in combination with contraception access and comp sex ed.

[psykkodukk]

I guess I misunderstood.

Although I do think that affordable and accessible contraceptives and comprehensive sex ed can reduce the abortion rate, it can never eliminate abortion entirely. 1) Not all people will use contraceptives every time, or will use them correctly. 2) No contraceptive is 100% effective. 3) Not all abortions are the result of unplanned pregnancy. Some people actually want to have a baby but choose later to abort for various reasons. Changes in job, relationship, health, etc.