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My post at Huffingpost
Filed Under (Politics, contraception, family, life) by Javier Plumey on 31-07-2009
Tagged Under : contraception, family, prolife
I almost regret sending you over to that site, but I wanted to post the comment that I made regarding a particularly ignorant comment on this post by Cristina Page. Go check it out, create an account, and post something yourself. Just don’t elect to receive their emails, they’ll send you more trash than your Inbox can handle.
“Considering that the average woman spends 23 years of her life trying not to get pregnant, the anti-contraception approach depends on a scourge of sexless marriages or a lot of wishful thinking.”
How grossly ignorant you are! Ever heard of Natural Family Planning? There are natural forms of family planning that don’t require the use of medication or the use of unnatural devices during sex. The problem is that many of those natural forms require that couples be engaged in a committed relationship because they require communication and planning, two things that are not present in the “hookup” style of relationships used by many people that use contraception.
I dare you to look at the statistics around Natural Family Planning. You’ll find that couples that use NFP stay together longer, are generally happier, and that their use of NFP has the same percentage of success (or greater) than most forms of traditional contraception.
Perhaps she’s ignorant, but saying “go look at the statistics” may not be helpful – the PP statistics are grossly skewed and the FDA’s aren’t necessarily much better – especially if you don’t know what STM, OM or CrM stand for. So the statistics they may go look at will be the ones where they say NFP is 50% effective( in Columbia, where the pill is 80% effective) and that the pill is 99% effective (in the US where STM is also 99% effective).
I agree with you! I was so aggravated with the article and the comments that I made a very useless point. So the question is, what’s the most effective way to “educate” these people on the real impact of contraception and the alternatives?