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   From: gowch@SPAMTHEENOThotmail.com   
      
   On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:19:40 -0800, "David V."    
   wrote:   
      
   [snip]   
   ==>1.3 million abortions were performed in the USA in the year   
   ==>2000.   
      
   		Still, a drop in the bucket compared to the   
   		number of women who use some form   
   		of birth control, as I said.   
      
   [snip]   
      
   ==>Remember that not all abortions are recorded. Several   
   ==>states, and many doctors, do not report abortions.   
      
   		And why should they?  In any case, that's   
   		unlikely to be a significant differential.   
      
   IG:   
   ==>> This does not lend itself to the conclusion that "many"   
   ==>> women use abortion as as "alternative form of birth   
   ==>> control."   
      
   ==>Many do. The majority does not.   
      
   		The GREAT majority does not.  The CDC item you   
   		ciited notes that, "Approximately half the women who   
   		had an abortion were obtaining an abortion for the   
   		first time."   
      
   		Obviously, women obtaining an abortion for the first   
   		time cannot possibly be accused of using the procedure   
   		as an alternative form of birth control.  Using the   
   		CDC figures, only about 500,000 women in the U.S.   
   		received a second or subsequent abortion during the   
   		reporting period (1997).   
      
   		Again, that's a drop in the bucket compared to the   
   		women using birth control -- and, of course, there's   
   		no evidence whatsover that ANY of those women   
   		regarded abortion as an alternative form of birth   
   		control.   
      
   		And that makes that particular claim utter bullshit,   
   		if not deliberately misleading misinformation designed   
   		to shock the public's sensibilities to promote an   
   		anti-choice agenda.   
      
   		It's also worth mentioning that the CDC notes that   
   		"the rate of legal abortions for women in the   
   		reproductive years (15-44) was 20 per 1,000 women."   
      
   		That means that the rate of women having abortions in   
   		the United Snakes each year is two per cent -- again,   
   		a drop in the bucket, and hardly supportinve of  the   
   		anti-choice cabal's favourite fiction, namely, that   
   		hordes of careless, irresponsible welfare slatterns   
   		are jamming the abortion clinics because they're too   
   		fucking lazy to take a pill.   
      
      
      
      
   --   
   Better an abortion clinic on every streetcorner   
   than the birth of one more unwanted child.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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