Toronto — “Contraception” is not a solution to abortion, but rather part of the problem” says Toronto RTL Executive Director Natalie Hudson in an article in the summer 2004 issue of Right to Life News Canada.
In her educational report on this issue Hudson lays out the factual and statistical case indicating an historically strong link between abortion and the availability and promotion of contraception.
In Canada, she notes, the legalization of both the birth control pill and abortion in 1969 was followed by an almost immediate huge increase in the number of abortions. Hudson continues that “There is no culture or subculture in the world that has permitted contraception and then has not gone on to permit abortion.”
Even the United States Supreme Court, in the Planned Parenthood vs. Casey decision, is quoted as stating “…in some critical respects abortion is of the same character as the decision to use contraception.”
Hudson also reports that a study in the September 1997 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that promoting birth control had the unintended consequence of encouraging teen sex which in turn caused dramatic increases in sexually transmitted diseases among youths.
A major solution to the problem, says Hudson, has proven to be much-maligned, but nevertheless statistically effective abstinence education programs. The proportion of teens choosing abstinence has been growing and, surprisingly, the majority of that growth has been among teenage males.
See also:
The Contraception Misconception
(This update courtesy of LifeSiteNews.com.)
