>>Tracy, without stating an opinion: which poster said that they want women getting infections and/or dying in backalley abortions?
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>>In 2008, there are *many* ways to avoid an unwanted baby. And not all of them presume responsible behavior in the heat of the moment, either.
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>>FWIW there is growing evidence that having an abortion may affect a woman's mental wellbeing for the rest of her life. Perhaps society needs to check its assumptions regularly rather than adopting marginalized positions to be defended to the bitter end.
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>If this was the case, that these guys were against an abortion for purely medical reasons, then why would they be pushing the ban on abortions in cases when the abortion was the way to save the woman's life? Also, why are they pushing the "abstinence only" as the only true and tried (*) method to be evangelized to the public, to the point where some forms of aid (AIDS related, IIRC) to some countries were contingent on their taking upon themselves to advertise abstinence and not tell their patients or anyone else about any other method. Also, why are these guys instructing their member pharmacists to refuse to sell contraception, specially Plan B?
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>I agree that abortion is the worst form of contraception. Guard rails are the worst way to prevent a vehicle from going off the road - there are so many other things that can be done before it comes to that. Should we remove them, then?
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>(*) I'd agree with "tried" as in "tried that too, didn' work"

And one method of contraception is not necessarily enough. For example, assuming the pill is 99.5 percent effective, 84,000 of the 16.8 million women currently taking it will have an unintended pregnancy even if they take their pills correctly every day.