>>>>>>Tamar,
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>>>>>>Any more than any of the other outcomes of an unwanted pregnancy? That's the piece of the equation that tends to be missing in most of the discussions.
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>>>>>>That's True if discussion can only start at the point when an unwanted conception has already occurred. ;-) I'd prefer to extend the consideration to whether individuals or society can do better than an abortion clinic at the bottom of the cliff. For a start, we might look at first world countries like Holland and Japan whose abortion rates are 1/8 of those in the US. Unless we truly believe that the examples you provided earlier are 8 times as common in the US, those communities are doing something different from which we might learn.
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>>>>>Let's start with the common belief in Japan that contraception is not solely the woman's responsibility. Condoms count for 80% of birth control methods in Japan. Japan is actually concerned about wide-spread acceptance of the pill for birth control. They fear increased incidents of aids ...
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>>>>What? Aids can just happen and then go away?!
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>>>>Jeez I'm being picky at the moment, nicht wahr? :-)
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>>>>(HINT: "incidences")
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>>>Actually, "incidence," not "incidences."
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>>>Tamar
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>>Nah, in common speech one would say "There has been an incidence of ... in the city" or could say "There is/has been incidence ...", fair enough, to denote one occurence, but " ... several incidences".
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>No, I'm hard pressed to come up with any situation where "incidences" is right. "Incidents" is right if you referring to a number of individual episodes. "Incidence" is right, if you mean the frequency of something.
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>Tamar

I see it as "incidence" is something that exists, such as a disease, whereas "incidents" are things that happen - then are gone, such as a motor bike accident, a stabbing, et al.