saquigley@watmath.UUCP (Sophie Quigley) (10/26/84)
The accusations that "certain" women use abortion as (gasp!) a method of
birth control made me wonder about the motives of the people making those
accusations. It seems as though the people making these statements are
declaring that abortions are ok, as long as they are not for birth control
purposes. Pray, tell me what they should be for then? Just for the fun of
killing little embryos?
Obviously, I am misreading your accusations; what you really mean is that
abortion should not be used as the only method of birth control. Fair enough.
Now think for a while: a normally fertile sexually active woman who does not
use birth control should have a child on average once every two years (lactation
and pregnancy being natural birth control methods), so the same woman who uses
abortion as her only birth control method should average one abortion/year.
(In passing, abortion as the only birth control method is not only expensive,
it is very dangerous and time-consuming, unlike most other methods)
All right, then all you anti-women flamers, put up or shut up! How many of the
"hedonist rich bitches" do you know of or have heard of (I'll even grant you
that!) have one abortion a year? hmmm, hard to come up with figures isn't it?
well, don't you think that it is possible after all that most women who have
abortions use some other kind of birth control?
Sophie Quigley
...!{clyde,ihnp4,decvax}!watmath!saquigleyandrews@uiucdcsb.UUCP (10/31/84)
Who said it was the only method used? It is however a method used when all the others "fail". The best way to prevent unwanted pregnancies outside of marriage, and VD for that matter, is not to have sex in the first place. Brad