Why do most pro-choicers ignore responsibility to use birth control?

Question

I have been seeing so many abortion questions lately. There are very many birth controls to choose from. It may take awhile to find one that is compatible to you. Shots, pills, devices, condoms- which in today's society is a good idea anyway. Sure, even with the most advanced birth control there will still be unwanted pregnancies, but very, very few compared to the amount there are here every year. Even most teens know about all of these birth controls and can get them without parents consent. If a woman doesn't want to get pregnant, doesn't want to have a child, get birth control. Sure, some will be raped and pregnancy will occur, a woman might be pregnant and her life is in danger. I'm talking about abortion being used as a form of birth control. There is no reason, there should be so many abortions now days. I'm not saying women who have abortions are bad people. I'm saying, get on birth control and avoid the whole thing.

Answer 1

I agree that birth control is very important and more should be done to make it available. Are you aware that many anti-abortion believers are also anti-contraception and are doing things to make birth control less available? There has been pressure on health insurance companies to stop covering contraception. Its ridiculous.

Answer 2

i completely think abortion is wrong, except when the mothers life is endangered, or it is 100% positive the baby won't live (like when they form with no skull), or in the case of incest or rape (which i think is still wrong.. but permissible).

BUT... i am also pro-choice for the pure and simple fact that if it is illegal.. whats going to happen are a bunch of really scary back alley abortions killing hundreds if not thousands of women yearly.

however.. i've always taken birth control since i've been sexually active.. i've always used the pill, and before i was married, i always used a condom as well. now that i'm married, i use the pill, but if i got pregnant it wouldn't be a big deal.. so we skip the latex...

anyways.. its interesting how some people do use abortion as birth control. .although i dont think its as frequent as you make it sound. besides, birth control isn't infallible. i got pregnant on the pill with a broken condom... i had a miscarriage... but anyways...

Answer 3

With societal pressure from fundamentalists, in a dualistic society, the logic of your argument falls apart. Yes, some teens can get their hands on contraception w/o parents knowing and many can't. Not all birth control is 100% effective. Abstinence only programs have been proven to not work, and yet are still hailed by fundamentalists as a viable solution.

In plain English people want to run around making laws telling people what to do, but don't do anything to PREVENT the social ills that cause things to happen, like kids wanting to have sex without protection, abortions, capital punishment, a screwed-up prison system, etc.

I'm anti-abortion, pro-choice but my voice is lost in the wind, yet I keep screaming, "If you want to see an end to the problems there's a solution." but egos, arrogance, dualistic philosophies drown it all out in favor of themselves.

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Answer 4

Few pro-choice people advocate using abortion as any regular form of birth control. My feeling about abortions is that they should be safe, legal and very rare.

Most pro-choice people are for using other, less invasive methods of birth control in a responsible manner so that abortion is not needed. I do not know what pro-choice people you have been talking to.

Answer 5

You seem to think that pro choice equals pro abortion. I'm pro choice, 36 years old, and have never had an abortion, and I don't think I ever would. I do use birth control responsibly. Thing is, I don't think I have the right to tell any other woman how to run her body. I don't think the government has the right to tell a woman how to run her body. Maybe if it wasn't such a trial to get information about birth control, and to get birth control, we wouldn't have such a big problem with this.

Answer 6

Pro-choicers are hardly the ones "ignoring" birth control. It is the fact that people want to take sex education out of schools and never teach teenagers anything about sex other than "It's bad, don't do it" that is causing more abortions. Oddly, it is often the very same people who want to outlaw abortion who support abstinence only sex ed.

Answer 7

For every pro-choicer who chooses to get an abortion, I guarantee you, there are hundreds of pro-choicers who don't get pregnant because they used a form of birth-control. They are just not talked about. Only the small percentage that actually get an abortion are noticed.

Answer 8

not in all probability. professional-choicers are not attempting to argue that no you may actually ever be born. they have self belief the female could have a call and families could be waiting to plot and have administration over their very own lives. in case you're making delivery administration and abortion unlawful, you're exerting some form of administration over somebody's existence. If I wasn't taking delivery administration, my husband and that i might positively have multiple babies by potential of now, we does not have long gone to varsity, we'd probably be on welfare working a low-salary activity attempting to scrape by potential of and supply a high quality existence for our infants. I plan to have little ones in 2 years. i'm going to have a properly-paying activity, as will my husband, and could actually have a wealth of understanding and international experience to pass right down to our infants. Thank GOD for that.

Answer 9

I am pro-choice and I use birth control. It's a responsiblity I don't ignore.

Do you think it's just women who are pro-choice having unplanned pregnancies? Considering the church's stance on birth control, I would think again.

Answer 10

First, birth control is not 100% effective, but you're right in that it should be the chosen option, and it usually is! But what is obvious is that there is an issue especially in the US with unwanted pregnancy. People are against sex education. People are against handing out contraceptives in school. People are against pre-marital sex. Well if you want kids to abstain, they probably aren't going to so your best bet is to hope that they practice safe sex. In order to do that they need to be educated about it and given the resources to get contraceptives. People have their head buried firmly in the sand. "It won't happen to MY daughter." But it does...then that kid is too afraid to tell mom and dad what happened. You cannot convince a parent to be open and frank with their kid when they are 100% against pre-marital sex. So what happens? Unwanted pregnancies.