“Morning-after pill” & Abortions BOTH on the Increase
In Scotland, despite the assurance by “experts”, that emergency contraception would cut down on the amount of abortions. When the sin of sexual promiscuity is seen as pregnancy as opposed to impurity, it’s no wonder the incidences of promiscuity is on the rise.
Cases have emerged in Scotland of health workers arranging for schoolgirls to receive the pill in nearby clinics, although the Executive has said it is not handed out in schools.
Surveys of UK women having abortions in 1984 showed that 1 per cent had recently taken the morning-after pill. By 2002, this had risen to 12 per cent. But at the same time, rates of abortion in the UK have increased from 11 per 1,000 women aged 15 to 44 in 1984 to 17.8 per 1,000 in 2004.
Past studies, including one involving 18,000 Lothian women, have shown that getting emergency contraception to keep at home increased its use by two or three times - but with no measurable effect on abortion rates.
Now that the “plan B” abortion pill will be available OTC, you can bet it will be on the top of the “wish list” for countless adolescent boys and men.
Source/Photo:News.scotsman.com
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I’m not commenting here on the morality issue- just a statistical comment. If you’re looking at whether the morning after pill decreases abortions, Unless the pill was over-the-counter in 1984, the increase in the number of abortions over that time period is not relevant to whether the pill decreases abortions.
Comment by anon — September 15, 2006 @ 3:18 pm
The dirty little secret is that the “morning after pill” only works 75% of the time…IF taken correctly (and the women who use it are often not organized enough to take it correctly).
So even the medical study that compared women with no “plan B”, women with “plan B” at home and women who took it after asking their clinics for it, found no difference in pregancy rates or std…and claimed no differnce in unprotected sex…but 57% of the plan B users admitted to unprotected sex, where as only 37% of the control groups admitted to it…
Result: More abortions…more STD…more HIV…
Comment by boink — September 15, 2006 @ 6:31 pm
anon, I’m not sure what you’re alluding to, but if there are more people taking the MA pill and there are more abortions, then that means are both increasing, or am I missing the point of your comment?
The dirty little secret is that the “morning after pill†only works 75% of the time…IF taken correctly
Thanks Boink, I had no idea it was that low.
Comment by shelray — September 16, 2006 @ 9:07 pm