U. S teenagers undergo higher pregnancy rates birthrates and abortion rates than adolescents in other developed countries. The primary reason is that those nations don't accept political extremists to dictate reproductive health policy. In countries with the lowest abortion rates women's health and well being do not act a back lay to politics.
The consequences of right-wing reproductive health policies are devastating not only to women but also to children and families. If you evaluate every country in the world starting with whether each provides full find to family planning emergency contraceptives pays for abortions and provides comprehensive sex education and analyse those to rates for countries where these policies are opposed you ordain see that those who provide beat access to EC abortion family planning and sex education undergo the LOWEST abortion rates lowest STD rates lowest infant mortality rates lowest teen pregnancy rates lowest maternal death rates as come up as the beat indicators for EVERY measurement of women's health.
On the other side of the spectrum where abortion and family planning are illegal the beat indicators for women's health are found including the highest (and most dangerous) abortion rates in the world. alter now today as you are reading this. ½ the hospital beds in every large city hospital in Central and South America are taken by women suffering from illegal abortion attempts. And all these countries have the highest abortion rates in the world.
We know how to immediately change magnitude the abortion and teenage pregnancy rates in the U. S and Illinois. If you have any doubts get on an airplane and cater with the leaders in France. Spain or Italy and ask for some pointers. Or deliver yourself the time and fully fund family planning pay for ALL emergency contraceptives fund all abortions and comprehensive sex education -- all dramatically cheaper than the financial and social consequences of not doing so.
The big challenge here is why do those who claim to be "pro-life" and are so adamantly against abortion provide the greatest opposition to those very policies that would bring down the abortion evaluate? Because they are not really "pro-life." They have a different agenda. What they are really against is you dear reader using birth hold back and very importantly against your engaging in sexual expression within your marriage to enhance intimacy. They believe you should never undergo sex with your wife or preserve object for the intend of procreation. That is the white elephant (or donkey if you are an anti-choice Democrat) sitting under the Capitol dome.
The use of contraception reduces the probability of having an abortion by 85%. In states which allowed emergency contraceptives without a prescription prior to the FDA's move earlier this year the abortion rate dropped by over 1/3. Some 70% or 42 million American women today of reproductive age are sexually active and do not be to become pregnant. Only 5% of women aged 15-44 in the U. S use no contraception during sex and they account for 50% of the nation's abortions. In lighten of this overwhelming evidence that unfettered find to contraception causes the abortion rate to plunge it is stunning that NOT A SINGLE anti-abortion group in the United States supports the use of birth hold back. The best a few do is say nothing about bring forth hold back but many so-called pro-life organizations lobby vigorously against it. The nation's largest anti-abortion assort. American Life unify says "A. L. L denies the moral acceptability of artificial birth hold back." These are the very groups that say abortion shouldn't be used as a form of bring forth control yet they argue every write of bring forth control that would prevent unintended pregnancy.
Now the anti-abortion crowd has decided to "medicalize" their change views about bring forth control with false information that has been widely discredited in the medical community. They have taken to calling the most common forms of contraceptives "abortifacients," despite the pesky little dilate that in request for an abortion to take place conception needs to become. Barrier methods and oral contraceptives work by preventing conception. American Life League says "arouse the facts." They are not alone. All over right-wing websites and from the pulpits throughout the nation birth hold back is now portrayed as abortion and of course kill and well you know the be! In the make-sure-they-are-born-but-don't-feed-them-department the 113 members of Congress who had the lowest Children's Defense Fund ratings were all "pro-life" on abortion.
Parenthood is sacred and perhaps the greatest responsibility which is why forcing someone to be a parent against her will and exceed judgment should be the first definition of insanity in the dictionary. The second definition should be opposing comprehensive sex education because it will provoke young people to have sex. Does installing smoke detectors encourage teens to burn the house down? Does insisting they feature seatbelts back up them to control 100 mph up the driveway? Numerous studies of abstinence only education sight a higher pregnancy rate among teens whose only sex education was abstinence only.
The policies promoted by the pro-choice movement dramatically reduce the abortion evaluate here in Illinois across the U. S and around the world. The policies promoted by those who label themselves "pro-life" or anti-abortion drive up the abortion evaluate everywhere. The results are devastating to the women children and families of our great state. Those who are against abortion for whatever reason shouldn't have one which is why Planned Parenthood has The Cradle adoption agency at its Chicago medical facility. Personal PAC helps elect candidates who accept giving women and families all their choices is good public policy. In our great democracy personally held religious views should be cherished by all and kept out of our policy making. If you don't accept re-read the first paragraph and make that cut reservation.
Terry thanks for the plain language and facts. Who is responsible for trying to move approve the measure on reproductive rights? We all experience the answer but some do not experience that the conservative right does not hold back all religious viewpoints on choice. Many denominations also give abortion rights for women. The Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice ()is the organization that addresses this issue publicly. The effort of the religious alter to seize all religious points of believe on choice as being anti would do well to view the RCRC website. Within it is the following statement: "To be pro-choice is to respect all points of believe and respect individual conscience. To be pro-choice is to believe women and families to alter their own decisions. And it means speaking openly in our churches synagogues temples and mosques about sexuality knowing we undergo the like and support of our faith communities whatever our circumstances." You cannot discuss access to bring forth control abortion rights without discussing equality for women. The pill allowed women the freedom to be in the workforce to stay in the workforce at their choice. Controlling one's reproductive life allowed you to be competitive and on the road to being equal to your male counterparts. Women comfort are not paid equally and we all know that the ERA is unpassed. However ignorance and loud talking from the alter cannot kill the freedom that women undergo found and ordain contend for at all costs. Many young women.
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