On second thought, never mind.
Wow, you’re serious about your user name, aren’t you?
Will you marry me?
No… I’m always careful with sex. So I wouldn’t be more careful.
No I’m always careful now. I have a partner, but I was careful before.
I did get pregnant even after taking precautions but I was scared but secretly tickled.
I had an abortion at 15. I’m so grateful it’s legal but I don’t think it would have made me more careful if it hadn’t been an option. I was a stupid kid. I thought the rules didn’t apply to me.
This- Same thing happened to me. Kids are bad with risk/benefit analysis.
As for now, I am picky about who I sleep with regardless of my birth control options. I think it is hard wired. I voted “no” because I don’t think my choices have ever had anything to do with abortion being legal.
Honestly, I don’t know! One part of me would want to be more careful, one part would still want to have a sex life , and i would deeply, seriously resent not being able to get birth control and would want to practice civil disobedience by finding ways to get and distribute birth control to other women who wanted it.
I thought about it for awhile too… I’m really aggravated with pro-lifers sometimes, and don’t use anything but, leave the rest of us alone to use birth control OR NOT as we want.
I’ll third what Nava said. For me, the decision to have sex with a fellow is a rather big decision and not one I’m going to enter into lightly. One of the things I’ve considered is what would happen if I got pregnant and, at the risk of sounding like a kill joy, it’s a question I’d suggest other people ask themselves, too.
When abortion was illegal there were a lot of abortions and a lot of deaths, one of the reason’s for Roe V Wade. The fact that a woman had an abortion was kept a secret then, and few if any would admit to it.
I’ve got a coil. They have been 100% effective for 20 years so personally I would not be affected.
Don’t you at least recognize that people who have a lot of unprotected sex are potentially harmful to society?
What’s a coil? Is that an IUD? They aren’t 100% effective. 2 out of every 1000 women with an IUD get pregnant within a year.
I recognize that there are a lot of harmful things people ought not to be doing to themselves: drinking excessively, reckless driving, using drugs, smoking, jaywalking, driving drunk… to name a few.
I recognize that sex feels good and people want it. I recognize that not everyone wants kids or may be a good parent and i recognize that girls in HIGH SCHOOL should not be getting pregnant.
I recognize that some people want to save it for marriage, i hope that works for them.
If YOU, Alx, you don’t like birthcontrol, don’t use it. I think everyone should at least have the choice available to them IF they want it.
I don’t care that the Pope says condoms are sinful or that some conservative has their panties in a bunch because they sell condoms at all sorts of places.
http://www.cracked.com/article/112_the-5-most-horrific-ways-people-have-tried-to-discourage-sex/
Can you please answer the question? Do people who regularly engage in unprotected sex negatively affect SOCIETY?
WHAT are you talking about??
The fact that you put that in red indicates it’s some important point, but you obviously didn’t read the thread or you would know my position. You have proven only one thing, you don’t like to read.
AND I AM ANTI-CATHOLIC!!!
You are actually okay with a whole lot of people having unprotected sex?
Stinking oppressive SD messageboard rules… Disregard that last post.
Can you please answer the question? Do people who regularly engage in unprotected sex negatively affect SOCIETY?
WHAT are you talking about??
The fact that you put that in red indicates it’s some important point, but you are jumping to a pretty wild conclusion.
AND I AM ANTI-CATHOLIC!!!
You are actually okay with a whole lot of people having unprotected sex?
How?
Nevermind that in this poll you excluded married/comitted/nonsingle women, who are most likely the ones regularly engaging in unprotected sex.
Yeah, not shit. I’m far more afraid of AIDS or Herpes than I am a baby. Can’t give Herpes away… Well you can, but you’re still stuck with it, somehow.
Okay, sorry. Let me clarify.
Do unmarried people who regularly engage in unprotected sex (presumably without the intention of creating a child) negatively affect SOCIETY?
(You knew what I meant.)
Let’s see… If they get pregnant (unplanned, not necessarily unwanted), the answer to that question and related parts and debate are in your other thread. And somehow I think that is what bothers you more than STDs. BTW, I do think that high rate of STDs negatively impacts society. And that doesn’t have anything to do with whether abortions are legal or not.
And I think most women who have said here that they wouldn’t change their views is because they already use as much protection as they would if abortion were illegal, and they’re more concerned with STDs than with a pregnancy (understandably, I think).
FTR, again, I clicked ‘Yes’ not because I (or any women, I suspect) give a smile and a nod to the number to the local abortion clinic tacked on my headboard before diving in, caution thrown to the wind, but because I wouldn’t want to risk bringing a child into a world like that or, probably more realistically, risk my health if I couldn’t travel to a more progressive society for an abortion.
I wrote this in the OP’s other thread, but it honestly sounds like he just had his first pregnancy scare or found out his girlfriend has had more partners than him.