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The other serious argument against Plan B is that it will increase risky sexual activity by young people. But peer-reviewed studies published in mainstream medical publications (like one just published in the Journal of the American Medical Association) have repeatedly found no such link. Of course, conservatives argue that making emergency contraception available sends a broader cultural message about the acceptability of premarital sex. But, even if that were true, there are the likely benefits of Plan B to consider. James Trussell, a professor of economics and public affairs at Princeton University, has estimated that, if emergency contraceptives were widely available in this country, they could reduce the approximately 1.3 million abortions that take place yearly in this country by half. If a culture of life is so sacrosanct, shouldn't that trump the issue of premarital sex?
When conservatives talk about Plan B, they conjure up images of lust-crazed college girls engaging in one-night stands, then reaching over empty beer bottles to grab their supersized Plan B jars. But the one group to whom emergency contraception would make the greatest difference is rape victims. According to Trussell, who studied statistics from 1998, about 22,000 of the 25,000 women who became pregnant from rape could have prevented pregnancy with emergency contraception. Unfortunately, the new federal hospital guidelines for rape treatment released in January mysteriously omitted Plan B, even though a previous draft had included it. In Colorado, conservatives have fought efforts to impose a guideline that includes emergency contraceptives. Apparently, elements of the right are so committed to their stark definition of life and so concerned about hypothetical cultural signals that they would prefer rape victims become pregnant than inform them about emergency contraception. Who are the extremists now?
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images of lust-crazed college girls engaging in one-night stands
SmarterThanYou said:I have found that a very high percentage of people who are pro-life are only sympathetic to the person thats raped, so long as they carry to term anyway. pretty sad, in my opinion.
just based on my personal experience dillo, nothing official or documented. didn't mean to send out that impression of an official stat.dilloduck said:Where did you find these percentages. I'd be interested in seeing them.
SmarterThanYou said:just based on my personal experience dillo, nothing official or documented. didn't mean to send out that impression of an official stat.
they waiting that long now?When conservatives talk about Plan B, they conjure up images of lust-crazed college girls engaging in one-night stands, then reaching over empty beer bottles to grab their supersized Plan B jars.
no1tovote4 said:It could be that they believe that punishing the child for the sin of the father is just adding further insult to injury and creating a new victimization level where society deems the child of a rapist to be an unnecessary burden on society, that they somehow have less of a right to life because of how they were brought into existence. It seems the article argues only one vision of how they personally believe that they, the people who believe that the child has a right to life, think and disregards any thoughtful impressions that may mitigate what the author believes to be an unreasoning position and wishes to hear no other motivating factor that would imply that they are well-reasoned people with a compassion toward the unborn regardless of their origin.
How could it be the child's fault that the mother was raped? Yet we impose the absolute, the death sentence, onto the child as if their actual origin defines them as refuse to be discarded as the imposition that society deems them to be.
no1tovote4 said:How could it be the child's fault that the mother was raped? Yet we impose the absolute, the death sentence, onto the child as if their actual origin defines them as refuse to be discarded as the imposition that society deems them to be.
gop_jeff said:And that is the crux of it. There are mothers in the world who are raising the children who were conceived by rape. The children are no less loved. I certainly don't want to minimize the trauma of rape, but like no1 said, the child is innocent, why should he/she be punished?
no1tovote4 said:I know this to be true, I have a nephew that was conceived in just this manner. For a time I actually adopted him after his birth until his mother could see past the crime to the incredible child that he is. It was long ago that she once again took on her child, she loves him without question as any parent would.
We still talk about the time when she was pregnant, when she decided to carry the child to term because of the deep guilt she felt for a child she aborted earlier in life.
The abortion clinic had told her it would be a good experience and was the best choice for her, never defining the life within as worthy of existence. The guilt still weighs heavily on her...
Bless that little soul.
NATO AIR I must ask how this is not a punishment to stick them with the child.
so she is supposed to be saddled with the pregnancy through no fault of her own other than being a female in the wrong place at the wrong time?Bonnie said:There is adoption?
Bonnie said:There is adoption?
Shattered said:This is one thing I disagree on.. I can not see forcing a rape victim to carry a child to full term. It's unfair to make them relive that memory in their minds every single day of their pregnancy term - 24 hours a day. They'll never forget it, but that pregancy just makes it that much worse.
-=d=- said:You are speculating the woman would not grow to love her baby. It's MORE unfair to kill a baby.
Shattered said:This is one thing I disagree on.. I can not see forcing a rape victim to carry a child to full term. It's unfair to make them relive that memory in their minds every single day of their pregnancy term - 24 hours a day. They'll never forget it, but that pregancy just makes it that much worse.
