Getting pregnant is easy, carrying the child to term successfully is difficult.
1. Human beings have two biological imperatives: survival and procreation. It is much easier to get pregnant than not.
2. Even the birth control pill in practice, is only 85% effective. The figures that the drug companies use is based on controlled studies: The women taking the pill at the same time every day in the same way (with food or without).
In real life, that doesnât happen. Circumstances are not always ideal. And timing isnât always exactly 24 hours since the last pill. Lots of women get pregnant while taking the pill.
3. See my prior post on my costs of getting a prescription for birth control pills.
4. One Catholic woman who went for an abortion, which asked why she wasnât on the pill. Her response as a devout Catholic: taking a birth control pill is considered to be a mortal sin, as is abortion. She thought that since taking birth control pills was an equivalent sin to having an abortion, it would be better to commit one mortal sin of having an abortion rather than 21 mortal sins per month taking birth control pills.
5. High school girls report not using birth control because that would make them âlook like slutsâ if they were on the pill or carrying condoms.
6. With sex education, being pulled from school curriculums everywhere, and books even mentioning sex being banned from high school libraries, where are young women supposed to learn about biology and their bodies?
7. Last but not least abortion has declined substantially in the last 50 years in the USA. Itâs been cut in half. Right now your abortion rate is being driven by poverty. And unless you address the issues of low wages, lack of universal health, insurance, and lack of paid maternity leave for poor families banning abortion will not solve your problems.
As someone who used birth control throughout my reproductive life, I can count on the fingers of both hands, how many times I had sex without âtaking precautionsâ. And I got pregnant five times. Two of those 5 pregnancies were unplanned.
The thing that Republican men fail to understand is that the third of our pregnancies have complications. They end in miscarriage or worse. My two miscarriages had complications, and I would have been denied care under the abortion ban laws currently being passed.
The second one in particular, I had been pregnant for more 8 weeks, but the foetus had died somewhere around the 5th or 6th week. Carrying dead tissue for more than 2 weeks is dangerous, so I went in hospital to have it removed. I only have one working fallopian tube, so anything happening to this one and I wouldnât had been able to have another baby. I was able to get pregnant again right away. My daughter was born 11 months after the miscarriage.
There are 11 transgendered athletes in all of NCAA sports - more thann300,000 women. And one of those 11 athletes is nationally ranked and could be considered âeliteâ. And that athlete is ranked 35th in the NCAA, and 46th in the nation in swimming.
Banning trans gendered athletes from womenâs sports is a solution in search of a problem. Itâs not helping female athletes at all, and itâs pretending that they care about women while real women are bleeding out and dying from lack of reproductive healthcare
Campaign life, your names, a lie. You donât care if women die.