President nominates Alito to Supreme Court

[AGDee]

Originally posted by HelloKitty22
297,572,191 people living in US
148,786,095 – 50 % are women
74,393,047 are of childbearing age (50% - just a guesstimation but I think that's about fair)

Assuming all of these women use the most effective form of BC (which they can’t all do because of health issues) and they all use it perfectly (which is pretty much impossible) and the birth control is 99.9% (which is what it says on the package) then each year you can expect 74,393 unintended pregnancies a year.

Unless we are going to stop having sex for pleasure and only ever have sex to procreate we can expect that tens of thousands of women a year will have unintended preganancies. It's just not something that can be controlled, not even with the best birth control. And whether you are scarred teenager or an adult, you should have choices.

Thank you. Excellent post. I have one more addition.

Hoosier: Do you know many rapists who would stop to put on a condom?

So many married men complain that their wives aren't wanting to have sex often enough. Why do they think this is? Perhaps they really don't want to get pregnant.

[hoosier]

Originally posted by AGDee

Hoosier: Do you know many rapists who would stop to put on a condom?

Yes - zero, but we weren't discussing rape.

each year you can expect 74,393 unintended pregnancies a year.

Surely every "unintended" doesn't get aborted.

And if we encouraged the "unintended" to get an abortion, the per-year total would fall from 1.3 million to 74,393 +/-

I have never understood how or why abortion became the most prominent plank in the libs and dems platform.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by hoosier
I have never understood how or why abortion became the most prominent plank in the libs and dems platform.

Because as opposed to having states moderate that crap themselves, it became a federal issue. Now instead of talking about how the heck to make filling out tax forms easier, we have to deal with abortions all the time.

-Rudey

[DeltAlum]

Originally posted by hoosier
I have never understood how or why abortion became the most prominent plank in the libs and dems platform.

Oh, probably for the same reason it's always an issue at the Republican Convention and that platform as well.

People are passionate about it from both sides.

The religious ramifications are a pretty big catalyst, too.