I will just quote previous posts, since I’ve already gone over this.
Omg_a_Black_Conservative:
According to the Alan Guttmacher Institute, fifty-four percent of women who have abortions had used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant, with most people using them infrequently. Therefore, you can’t say anything about them. The other 46%, however, had not. Of the 46% who had not used contraception:
-33.1% didn’t use them because they didn’t think they’d get pregnant at the time
(There is overlap between the categories.)
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I’ll just focus on the 12%. Of that 12%, 7.9% said their non-use was for financial reasons, 2.1% said their non-use was because they didn’t know where to find contraceptives and 2.5% said they just didn’t a method and/or a refill (doesn’t add up to 12%). The latter reason is nothing but laziness and the second to last reason is a piss poor excuse for not using contraceptives as anyone over the age of 15 knows where to get some condoms, as you can find them in just about any gas station or convenience store (and since the majority of people who have abortions are in their 20’s, that’s an even worse excuse). So that leaves us with 7.9%.
Let’s just say that, now, those 7.9% of people who has no access to contraceptives (hard to believe, really) who also have abortions now get access to contraception. Approximately half of them will use them while the other half won’t, and around half that uses contraceptives will use them inconsistently. So the question is, why should we subsidize contraceptives (free of copays!) when:
(1) The majority already has access to them and
It’d make much more sense to promote some measure of-- you know-- personal responsibility*. But this is a problem we have in this discourse. One side likes to treat the issue of one where every woman-- or even the majority of women-- do everything they can to not become pregnant. It’s not and they don’t. A simple fact of the matter if that many people don’t use contraceptives simply because they don’t want to or use them infrequently because they simply don’t care, so why pay for something people aren’t going to use anyway?
And:
Anyway, ignoring the fact that legalized abortion mitigates contraceptive use, just look at data from Guttmacher . Right off the bat, approximately 46.3% of women who have abortion use no contraceptive method whatsoever . Of the remaining women who were using contraceptives when they became pregnant, 13.6% of them were using the pill, 27.6% of them were using the male condom and 7.3% of them were using the withdrawal method (those are the three most popular methods).
Of course, it’s important to note that 53.7% of women who obtain abortion don’t become pregnant despite using contraceptives. In fact, a large portion of that 53.7% weren’t using contraceptives at the time they became pregnant. For example, for pill users 75.9% reported inconsistent use at the time they got pregnant:
-45.1% simply forgot to take pills
For condom users 49.3% reported inconsistent use at the time they got pregnant:
-20.4% didn’t use because they didn’t think they’d get pregnant
Now even granting you the 45.1% of women forgetting to take the pill (we’ll chalk that up to simple human error) and the 7.7% who was sick (as sometimes taking other medicine can interfere with the pill), I think it’s safe to say that approximately 22.9% of pill users and 46.8% of condom users weren’t exactly using the aforementioned methods as their primary form of contraception, since they weren’t using them at the time they got pregnant . If you add them to the other 46.3% of women who obtain an abortion when they weren’t using any type of contraceptives at all, you’d find that to add up to over half of all abortion cases.
Good luck explaining that.
Either way you slice it, the overwhelming number people who obtain abortions aren’t using contraception because they can’t afford them, but because they simply either don’t want to or they choose not to use contraception. When you get right down to it, that’s people choosing to have sex irresponsibly. There are no and’s, if’s or but’s about it. Subsidizing contraception will do jack shit to change that.