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kittinSol -> RE: The Deviding Issue-Palin's veiw Abortion (9/12/2008 10:37:37 AM)
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What's the methodology for coming up with the figures you quote? Measuring the incidence of 'contraception' abortions can't be easy: how does your website come up with the figure of 95%? It's not clear. I know one thing for sure: abortion results from unintended pregnancy.
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“The reality is that women don’t set out to have an abortion per se, but rather choose not to have a baby at that time. For many women, it is the only decision they can make, given their circumstances,” says Sharon Camp, president and CEO of the Guttmacher Institute. “This is not a political issue, but rather one that affects real women facing difficult choices. It’s time to bring our attention back to these women and address the underlying problem—unintended pregnancy. Focusing on preventing unintended pregnancy in the first place will reduce the need for women to make these tough choices.”
Here are some clear and serious figures from a respectable source, not some anti-choice lobby. As you can see, the results aren't as easy to read as yours: that's because they are real results, not manichean fabrications.
First of all, the good news:
The number of induced abortions declined worldwide between 1995 and 2003, from nearly 46 million to approximately 42 million. About one in five pregnancies worldwide end in abortion.
• For every 1,000 women of childbearing age (15–44) worldwide, 29 were estimated to have had an induced abortion in 2003, compared with 35 in 1995.
• The decline in abortion incidence was greater in developed countries, where nearly all abortions are safe and legal (from 39 to 26 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44), than in developing countries, where more than half are unsafe and illegal (from 34 to
29).
Unintended pregnancy: the root of abortion.
• More than one-third of the approximately 205 million pregnancies that occur worldwide annually are unintended, and about 22% of all pregnancies end in induced abortion.
• Of the 23 million pregnancies that occur in developed countries, more than 40% are unintended, and 28% end in induced abortion.
• Of the 182 million pregnancies that occur in developing countries, more than one-third are unintended, and 19% end in induced abortion (8% are safe procedures and 11% are unsafe).
• The average woman must use some form of effective contraception for at least 20 years if she wants to limit her family size to two children, and 16 years if she wants four children.[9]
• Two-thirds of unintended pregnancies in developing countries occur among women who are not using any method of contraception.
• More than 100 million married women in developing countries have an unmet need for contraception, meaning they are sexually active; are able to become pregnant; do not want to have a child soon or at all; and are not using any method of contraception, either modern or traditional.
• The reasons why women (married and unmarried) do not use contraceptives most commonly include concerns about possible health and side-effects and the belief that they are not at risk of getting pregnant.
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_IAW.html
I urge everybody to read a full study done by the Guttmacher Institute on the reasons why women choose to abort in the U.S. to cut out the political bullshit. http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/psrh/full/3711005.pdf
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