Abortion is a safe and legal way for women to choose to end pregnancy. There are two kinds of abortion in the U.S. — abortion procedures and the abortion pill.
Abortions are very common. In fact, more than 1 in 3 women in the U.S. have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old.
If you are trying to decide if abortion is the right choice for you, you probably have many things to think about. Learning the facts about abortion may help you in making your decision. You may also want to learn more about parenting and adoption.
Planned Parenthood health centerOnly you can decide what is best for you. But we are here to help. A staff member at your local Planned Parenthood health center can discuss abortion and all of your options with you and help you find the services you need.
Coach T wrote:Does PP fully explain to women the emotional and physical consequences of abortion? Not trying to be argumentative, just would like to know.
You mean like a huge sense of relief, and better health?
No, I'm not supposing anything of the sort. I am telling you what Planned Parenthood considers itself. It prefers women NOT to get abortions. Hmm... those that wish women never had abortions doesn't sound very pro--abortion to me. Yet, you know I don't have the special power of insight and ESP you apparently have.
Could you please point me to where Planned Parenthood explicitly said it prefers women NOT to get abortions?
I can show you where Planned Parenthood is EXTREMELY active in getting women on birth control pills and legislating for cheaper birth control pills so there are less unintended pregnancies. So, if Planned Parenthood is active in attempting to PREVENT unintended pregnancies it doesn't appear that they're eager to have a bunch of clients that are pregnant and needing abortions!
Clearly, you do not understand the obvious distinction between "preferring women NOT to get abortions" and "EXTREMELY active in getting women on birth control pills..."
Yes, I do understand the distinction which is why I commented that you took one sentence of mine and ignored the rest of my sentences that related to what they do. They ensure that each woman that walks out of the clinic has counseling and helps her to get on birth control if she desires so that she does NOT have an unintended pregnancies. What I SHOULD have written is that Planned Parenthood prefers women NEVER to have unplanned pregnancies. That would have been more accurate, yet, I thought my other comments spoke to that. Planned Parenthood prefers it if women NEVER were in the situation where they felt they needed an abortion. They work actively to prevent (and educate) women about unplanned pregnancies.
This was my original comment that is not seen in your quotes:
I then talked about the term "pro-abortion". If a clinic was pro-abortion would they want women to be on birth control so they no longer get pregnant and seek abortions?
My other comments were an elaboration on that original one.
(Brace yourself for the usual anti-liberal, ad hominem attack, tell them how stupid they are, etc.)
Coggins7 wrote: Mr. Larson--as I've long suspected--is just another know-nothing liberal with a great many attitudes and a bag full of pop media revisionisms that have nothing to do with actual history, but just justify the Zeitgeist. "Safe sex", as Wade has correctly pointed out, was, for probably some thirty years, the sole acceptable teaching of the American Left and the public schools. Planned Parenthood, and similar institutions, from the seventies into the nineties, remained viciously opposed to abstinence, or anything that smacked of tradition Judeo/Christian moral values. This change to some degree of tolerance for abstinence is of recent date.
Larson's comment about Heritage is an utter riot, but the humor value is dampened by the dispiriting lack of well rounded education and intellectual depth this individual belies, as well as what is clearly (yes, yet again) the inability of liberals to explore and digest the ideas of those with whom they disagree, and instead rely on the old hoary crutch of self satisfied intellectual disdain. Heritage is very likely the most prestigious think tank in the country (and yes, it happens to be conservative) and its intellectual firepower is unquestionable (you need not agree with its conclusions on various issues, but this attribute is still unquestionable). The only thing the Left really has to compete with it is Brookings (other tanks of similar stature would be Hudson, Hoover, AEI etc.)
That Larson is simply out of the loop regarding Heritage and its known and respected level of scholarship and research quality is just another bit of evidence (along with his, what I have already aptly termed "Romper Room scientism) that taking him seriously is probably a dead end.
Coach T wrote:Is there any truth to the rumors that women who have had abortions have a higher risk of cancers related to the reproductive system? Or is this bunk.
Depends on who you ask. National Cancer Institute says:
There are a number of misconceptions about what can cause breast cancer. These include, but are not limited to, using deodorants or antiperspirants, wearing an underwire bra, having a miscarriage or induced abortion, or bumping or bruising breast tissue.