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The reason is simple: although I am pro-choice, I still believe that abortion is the taking of incipient life. Not a religious viewpoint but just a moral one. While I would not deny a woman the right to abort, I still think it is not something that a woman should do unless there is a compelling reason not to have the child. A compelling reason does not include the inconvenience of having a baby. [/quote]
Different PP, and I have a similar moral code.  But what I'm puzzled by is your insistence, based on anecdote per your own posts, that a large number (maybe majority) of abortions are due to women using it as their primary form of birth control.  That's a pretty bold statement.[/quote]

Yes, my information is anecdotal - but it is "informed anecdotes" - because none of the individuals I cited are opposed to choice but they do feel that it is a choice that is not always responsibly used.

There are other examples I can cite but it would also be anecdotal.

It is a convenient alibi to use for some women to say that their birth control failed - and I am sure it happens just as there are pregnancies that are caused by rape and incest - but seriously, the millions of abortions that occur cannot be attributed to failed contraceptives.[/quote]

Hi, I posted the Guttmacher stat above. Did you read it? HALF of abortions are the result of failed birth control. HALF. Your family members are wrong. Science does not support their perspective.

I don't doubt that many of those women were not using birth control 100% correctly. Do you take the pill at exactly the same time every single day? Many people don't know how to put condoms on correctly. But the reality of the statistics is that 51% of abortions are the result of birth control failure.[/quote]

Exactly.  And I'll go even further to say for that 49% that did not even bother to use birth control, that's still a kind of birth control failure.  Human behavior is predictably irrational, and that includes not acting prudently in the face of risks, or telling yourself "well, just this one time won't hurt ..."  AKA wishful thinking.  With better access to long-term birth control, unplanned pregnancy rates go down.  It's not because those women who would otherwise have gotten pregnant were using condoms that broke.  The women not getting pregnant are the ones who weren't behaving rationally.  Long-term birth control, easily accessible, erases those consequences and removes the ability to act irrationally.  It's great and everyone should have access to it!

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/06/science/colorados-push-against-teenage-pregnancies-is-a-startling-success.html

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