Nice column which was sent to us by Ed Mechmann, of the Archdiocese Family Life office. Hit the link for the whole article.
Rebecca Frech: "The Failure Rate"
I have been told more times than I can count that if I were truly against abortion I would have to be pro-contraception. “Contraception prevents unwanted pregnancies,” the argument goes, “so putting women on reliable birth control would cut down on unwanted pregnancies and there would be fewer abortions.”It’s an old argument, but always flung at me as if it were fresh and new and something I had never considered before this present moment. I think they expect me to stand there with my mouth hanging open at the cleverness of this point of view. This not being my first rodeo, I simply smile and ask “What about the failure rate?”
It’s a statistical anomaly, I’m told, if only people used contraceptives correctly there would virtually no unplanned pregnancies. Education and free access are all that separate us from an abortion free world.
“What about the failure rates?” I press them again, only to be told that those are just statistics. The number of those pregnancies is so small…..
I’d like to introduce myself: I am the Failure Rate. My husband and I have “defeated” almost every form of birth control available. Back in our pre-Catholic days, we did the “only sensible and responsible thing ” and tried to prevent babies from coming before we wanted them to come.
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