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15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - How Komen for the Cure... · 0 replies · +1 points

Yes. According to Susan G. Komen's web site: "Women who are currently using—or have recently used—birth control pills appear to have a slightly increased risk of breast cancer." I don't understand why Komen would fund an organization, Planned Parenthood, who is directly responsible for increasing the breast cancer risk of its customers. This is like the American Lung Association funding Phillip-Morris to do lung exams.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - How Komen for the Cure... · 2 replies · +9 points

The irony here is that chemical contraception provided by PP increases the risk of breast cancer. Shouldn’t that bother Komen ? Apparently not.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 2 replies · +2 points

"All of this is just to say that I live in constant fear of rape and have since childhood. "
Your words (unedited), not mine. Or were these the words of the married person sharing the user name with you?

You are digging yourself deeper into a hole and it appears to be making you angry. Thanks again for the lively discussion.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 1 reply · +1 points

Thanks. You are correct. NFP will not help with rape. Here is my answer to your question: if one woman becomes pregnant because of rape, it matters to me. Any woman who is violently attacked and raped matters to me. The question to you is this: is abortion the answer? Does abortion heal the rape victim or does it add one violent act upon another?

Hey, its been great going back and forth with you on this topic. You are certainly set in your ways. I admire that. Keep working for your cause and I will do the same. Cheers.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 5 replies · +3 points

Ok, in a nutshell your pro-choice views are based on (1) a constant fear of rape (2) the use of your intellect to discern that the entire body of work regarding abortion and pregnancy points in one direction; that women have better outcomes over their lifetime when they abort.

I'll share with you how I arrived at my anti-choice viewpoint. (1) when an egg and sperm meet a new human is formed, distinct from its mother and father (2) abortion causes the death of a human life (3) a moral truth that every human life deserves respect and dignity.

My guess is you don't agree with (3) because you can't arrive at that moral truth by using your intellect alone.

Well, its been fun. Hope everything goes well with your husband.... oh, sorry you were married in the post above, here you single. Sorry.

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 3 replies · +1 points

Thanks for answering my first question. Back to my second question, what was your intention with bringing up the issue of rape ?

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 0 replies · +1 points

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Sources:

Sources:
(1) http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius_04/offenses_reported...
(2) http://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/ojjdp/208803.pdf 1 statutory rape in 2000 for each forced rape.
(3) http://www.rainn.org/get-information/statistics/r...
(4) Holmes MM et al. Rape-related pregnancy: estimates and descriptive characteristics from a national sample of women. American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1996, 175:320–324
(5) http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/ss5609a1...
(6) http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/psrh/full/3711005....

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 6 replies · +1 points

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Research shows approximately 5% of rapes result in pregnancy (4). Therefore, out of the 315,450 rapes in 2004, 15,773 resulted in pregnancy. Let’s make the assumption that every one of these 15,773 pregnancies were terminated by abortion. In 2004 there were 839,226 induced abortions in the US (5). Therefore, the number of abortions in 2004 which resulted from rape was approximately 5% using my assumption. According to the Guttmacher Institute 1% of abortions in 2004 were related to rape. So, the number of abortions due to rape was somewhere between 1 and 5% using 2004 as an example. Conversely, somewhere between 95 and 99% of abortions were due to reasons other than rape.

So, about your statement, are you arguing that we should accept 100% of abortions because of the 1 – 5% associated with rape? If not, what was your intention with bringing up the issue of rape?

15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 7 replies · +1 points

Invariably when I respond on blogs to questions related to rape I am met with very emotional responses suggesting that I have no place speaking for women on this issue. So let it be known that I was not the first to bring up the issue of rape on this blog and I am specifically being asked for a response. If I offend anyone, I apologize.

First, I could not find the 30 million figure anywhere so please, if you have a source share it with us. Here are statistics I found for 2004 along with sources:

Forced Rape 2004 (1): 94,635
Statutory Rape estimate 2004 (2): 31,545
Total rapes 2004: 126,180

Up to 60% of sexual assaults are not reported in the US (3). Therefore, the total number of rapes in 2004 may have been as high as 315,450 so I will use this number. Note, due to the way the FBI reports their statistics the number of forcible rapes also includes threats of forced rape where the act did not actually take place. For this analysis, I will consider all 315,450 as rapes where the act was completed.

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15 years ago @ Live Action Blog - Hum... - About Abortion - What ... · 9 replies · +2 points

It would be great if we had un-biased sources women could rely on for honest information regarding abortion. I believe its next to impossible to find such sources leaving women to make life decisions based on studies with biases in both directions. For example, in the second article you reference, one of the co-authors is Roger W. Rochat, MD. Dr. Rochat has a pro-abortion bias. He has been affiliated with the Guttmacher Institute, Planned Parenthood, Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health, and the CDC. As a "anti-choicer" I should be skeptical not only of this doctor's studies, but also the organizations that associate with someone who has such an apparent pro-abortion bias. Do you agree I should be skeptical? (do a Google search, his full resume is available online). So, when you present studies and newspaper articles I believe it is incumbent on you to provide evidence they are un-biased. After all, you are trying to sway me and other pro-life folks who read this blog to your way of thinking.

Just curious, can you name two or three things you can point to that helped form your decision to be pro-choice?

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