The chart in the link you posted in the OP spoke of "abortion performed". Procedures "performed" aren't usually defined or don't usually include, to my understanding, simple administration of medicine.
You don't list it, but is it at all possible that a significant drop in the number of abortions "performed" is related to the advent in recent years of non-procedure forms equivalent to an abortion? Are there any statistics, or is it even possible, to determine the number of pregnancies ended medicinally? How about sales figures for these?
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the use of early medical abortion increased 13% from 2009 to 2010 (from 15.2% of abortions in 2009 to 17.2% in 2010);
Even if they are intended to be counted, I doubt they are able to accurately count the amount of morning after pill use. Also, in many states, there are very few facilities that still provide abortions.
Plan B also known as the " morning after pill" does not cause abortions.
It just delays ovulation.
The decrease in abortions has nothing to do with do with the number of abortion clinics.
One word? Secularization.
As more poor uneducated women become less religious in communities of poor women of all races that are usually strongly religious they tend to use more condoms and more birth control pills which reduces unwanted pregnancies.
Reality does help, Ryan. That's where dogma falls short for anti-choice religions. They need to follow the religions who subscribe to logic and reason when it comes to abortion and birth control. Minnie's posted a large list of religions who do support women's reproductive rights. They certainly exist.
But I do agree that secularization has help promote social agendas like reality sex ed instead of fantasy abstinence classes and programs such as PP, which are necessary in so many ways.
.... Also, in many states, there are very few facilities that still provide abortions.
The rate fell 13 percent between 2008 and 2011, ...
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The number of abortion providers fell 4 percent between 2008 and 2011, and the number of abortion clinics fell by 1 percent.
The researchers noted that the 2008-2011 decline in the abortion rate occurred before tighter limits on abortions were implemented in some states, which means the recent regulations are most likely not the reason for the nationwide decrease.
All religions are relics of ignorance from times past. New religions simply are recreated ignorance.
Induced Abortion in the United States
By the way, it is not just "giving somebody a pill". There is an entire process that is followed. Medical abortions at Planned Parenthood can be in the $500 to $800 range similar to surgical abortion.
Thanks for that as well. I presume this still doesn't include any pregnancies "terminated" before they started with the morning after pill. My earlier point was that until this past decade or so that option wasn't available and so the number of actual pregnancies was higher and terminations higher as a result compared to today. I guess in a broad sense, that considered "birth control".
Catholic journal says Plan B does not cause abortions
Plan B, the nation’s most widely used emergency contraceptive, works only as a contraceptive and does not cause abortions, according to an article in the January-February issue of Health Progress, the official journal of the Catholic Health Association.
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Reznik wrote that since it takes about a week from an egg’s fertilization to its implantation, the scientific evidence that Plan B treatment is completely ineffective after five days is overwhelming: It works only by preventing fertilization, not by preventing implantation.
Otherwise, she said, the drug would also be found effective from five to 12 days after coitus, because that is the time frame between the last chance for a sperm to fertilize an egg and the time a fertilized egg would implant.
The declining effectiveness of Plan B between 48 and 120 hours after coitus adds to the argument that preventing a fertilized egg from being implanted is not one of its effects, she said.
how do you know that? Evidence?The decrease in abortions has nothing to do with do with the number of abortion clinics.
Thanks.
Thanks for that as well. I presume this still doesn't include any pregnancies "terminated" before they started with the morning after pill. My earlier point was that until this past decade or so that option wasn't available and so the number of actual pregnancies was higher and terminations higher as a result compared to today. I guess in a broad sense, that considered "birth control".
The abortion rate is simply not at an all-time low.
Instead it is at an all-time high.
Why?
Because "abortion" isn't just surgical (the lmits of the OP link), it's also chemical.
Chemical abortions using the morning-after pill and the like have greatly increased.
Abortion is the aborting of the life of a newly conceived human.
That is the fundamental foundational reality in the abortion conflict, not the manner in which the abortion is performed.
Pro-choicers play semantics games in denying this reality, feigning that they don't grasp why there is such a conflict about the morning-after pill and the like in addition to the surgical procedure.
This article isn't news.
It's simply the same old, same old liberal media denial of obvious realities spun to fool people for their ideological agenda's benefit.
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