Just in time for the election, a new “scientific” study says Obamacare and its showering of free contraception on your dime will reduce the number of abortions.
A new study released Friday shows that provisions in Obamacare will reduce the number of abortions in the United States. This should be good news for Catholic Bishops who are strongly opposed to abortion. However the provision in Obamacare that is responsible for reducing abortions is opposed by the Bishops. In other words, if they get their way and that provision is eliminated, abortions will increase.
So, if a vote is taken in Congress to eliminate the provision in Obamacare that Bishops want removed, pro-life groups would have to score a vote to remove them as a vote against life. Bishops against life? That is ironic.
A new study by Washington University School of Medicine focusing on low-income women in St. Louis, MO concludes that expanding access to free contraception leads to significantly lower rates of unintended teen pregnancy and abortion. Researchers found that when women weren’t prohibited by cost, they chose more effective, long-lasting forms of birth control and experienced many fewer unintended pregnancies as a result
How many years have we heard this from leftist Catholics (heavy on the leftist and light on the Catholic part). They say more social spending will lead to less abortions and they say that more contraceptives will lead to less abortions. But all the time the abortion rate rises
Liberals have long felt that contraceptives solve every problem in the world. Overpopulation? Condoms. Deficits? Condoms. Abortions? Condoms. Climate change? Condoms.
It’s a bunch of hooey. But expect this to get major msm coverage.
October 9, 2012 at 4:52 am
The Guttmacher Institute has just released a video saying the same thing. However, what this recommendation does not take into account is that the longer acting hormonal contraceptives (injectables and implantables) increase the risk of breast cancer and double the transmission rate for HIV. If you talk about the IUD then you do nothing to the abortion rate because the IUD only works as an abortifacient. The younger a girl is when she starts using hormonal contraceptives, the greater her risk for breast cancer increases. Not to mention her risk for cervical cancer, blood clots, and strokes. There are also some suggestions that use of oral contraceptives changes the development of the prefrontal cortex in women. This is the area of the brain that controls judgment and impulse control.
October 9, 2012 at 2:48 pm
Obamacare has so many loopholes, Congress had to relinquish representative government of their constituents to legislate the bill. Congress does not have legal authority to bypass representative government for their constituents. Only a two-thirds majority of states ratifying such a change can change our form of government to dictatorship. Obamacare can now dictate organ harvesting without informed consent, euthanasia without informed consent, overcharging senior citizens for Medicare, imposing cruel and unusual punishment and penalties for following one's conscience and acknowledging our Creator and keeping and practicing our founding principles. Obamacare is an invalid imposition on the free will of citizens. Abortion is the destruction of our constitutional posterity. No tax money can be legally used to destroy our posterity.
October 9, 2012 at 10:17 pm
Pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute has repeatedly reported on major surveys that show 56%-58% of all women having abortions were using contraception the month they became pregnant.
October 10, 2012 at 2:28 am
@Denise: the reason hormonal contraceptives double the transmission rate of HIV is, well, guess how we treat auto-immune disorders (conditions where the body's immune system attacks itself, e.g. lupus). By means of artificial hormones, i.e. steroids…because they impair immune function.
Imagine a society where all men were expected to be on anabolic steroids in order to increase their upper-body strength, the immune effects be damned. Can anyone maintain for a moment that that society values its men? Yet somehow we've managed to sell "women should be on steroids so men can have sex with them risk-free" as women's rights. Love is hate! War is Peace! Down with Goldstein!