You’ll be surprised (perhaps, or perhaps not! This is an abortion-related blog, after all) that this is not a post about the Pill or some other more acceptable form of birth control.
It’s a commentary on the recent “selective reduction” of twins article, which, if this reaction in the National Post today is any indication, was just too jarring for so many:
Another way my twin and I are identical is on the abortion issue,” Ms. Anderson continued. “One of us used to be staunchly ‘pro-choice.’ Now, after coverage of this selective reduction, we’re both staunchly ‘pro-life.’ It seems this sad story has actually made the ‘pro-life’ stance more fashionable. It’s about time.”
I suppose the problem is that abortion itself was never meant to be used as birth control. It was for the extreme circumstances, which today includes “I need to finish school,” or “I wasn’t expecting two.” I hate to be nonchalant about something as painful as this, but we use abortion as birth control every day, so “selective reduction” is but a logical extension. Recall from the earlier article that the mother didn’t feel bad. And I can’t make her, wouldn’t try. The rest of us, with consciences intact, should reject the notion of selective reduction alongside the whole miserable business of abortion for less jarring reasons. And apparently, if the quote above is any indication, that is starting to happen.
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Abortion is used as the birth control of last resort. The reason it’s so commonly used as birth control at all is because people are *STUPID*!!! And even with capitalisation, astrisks and three exclamation marks I don’t think I said that word quite strongly enough.
It should not be that hard to use proper contraception. There are condoms, the pill, IUDs, surgery, hormonal implants… but, no. People persist in being stupid. Either they somehow forget all about consequences in the heat of arousal, or they refuse to believe that pregnency could happen to them personally, because that only affects other people. Or sometimes they actually do try, but manage to screw it up because they never realise that using a condom isn’t as simple as unroll-and-slide-on.
Contraception is simpler, safer, more convenient and safer. Abortion as birth control is something that is needed because people are stupid. But, people being people, I don’t imagine that’s going to change any time soon.
All in the name of having sex without consequences or limits. People always like to push limits and there are boundaries for everything but sex. I had two surprised pregnancies. Then I stopped having sex. Life has been a lot simpler, better, freer since. The more I see the sexualization of everthing the more I feel disgusted. And people wonder why STDs are onthe rise.
No, I didn’t have an abortion. My children had the right to live too!!!!
Suricou:
Every method of birth control ever invented has a non-zero failure rate. You can look these up. Now estimate the number of sexually active fertile couples in your country and multiply that by a representative failure rate (use 1% for the sake of argument, although this is probably an underestimate); and now you have an estimate for the abortion rate implied by the contraceptive mentality. Don’t be too surprised if it turns out to be close to the actual abortion rate in your country.
What is stupid is thinking that you can separate sex from procreation.