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Abortion instead of contraception
| Fri, 03-21-2008 - 9:25am |
This article is about abortion statistics in the UK.
Parts of it are scary.
In particular
The statistics, for 2006, showed nearly 15,000 women were having their third or more abortion, while 54 of those had terminated eight or more pregnancies.
But Mr Pritchard, the MP for The Wrekin in Shropshire, said abortion was being seen as an alternative to contraception "in far too many cases".
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'Contraceptive failure'
Labour MP Chris McCafferty, who chairs Parliament's all-party group on population, development and reproductive health, said all PCTs "must include comprehensive contraception options when commissioning abortion services".
"The simple equation is that poor contraception services equal more rates of abortion, including repeat ones.
"Nevertheless contraception and abortion services still remain the poor relation in public health, both in terms of health priorities and funding.
"This is especially true for women over the age of 25 who don't have specialist services in the way teenagers and young women do."
She said the figures suggested that most women having repeat abortions fell pregnant as "a result of contraceptive failure", having "completed their family, rather than any recklessness".
"The longer you are sexually active, the more likely you are to have an unwanted pregnancy or experience contraceptive failure."
Reducing the time limit from 24 to 20 weeks would make no difference to the number of repeat abortions, Mrs McCafferty said, as almost all of those having an abortion after 20 weeks were "first-timers".
It's not so much an availability problem, as every woman in the UK can get contraception free from her doctor. I think it's an education problem. There just isn't the stress put on safe sex that there should be.
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ITA! Clearly, there is some lack of communication or effective contraception education. I'd the same issues are in the US as well. Of course, we have to deal with the spectacular failure of abstinence only sex ed as well. Ugh.
I also can't understand not being more vigiliant in your contraceptive use once you've had one unplanned pregnancy, or putting yourself through multiple abortions. (I know BC can fail)
I'd have to say that the vast majority of both PC and PL people I know would much rather have more contraception as opposed to multiple abortions. (Or any at all, obviously) There seems to be a lot of backlash from those groups that think that
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Just to clarify, re: the poster's comment about Whoopi, she did the first one herself at 14 and had the rest while she was under 18 and living on the street, on drugs.
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