Strange Notions is a new Disqus site run by Brandon Vogt to try to discuss Rationality and Reason with Athiests. He may well succeed with some, but there is one subset of atheism he will never succeed with. On Richard Dawkin's spectrum of theistic probability , those with a score 6 and above often fall into something I term fundamentalist atheism. Many of them come from fundamentalist Christian backgrounds, if not in their generation, then within three generations of their recent past. Fundamentalist Atheism starts with the assumption that the supernatural doesn't exist and that the natural world is all there is, and runs with it, denying any data to the contrary. I've always been one to consider the natural to be a subset of the supernatural- that is the only real difference between the natural and the supernatural to me is the line of the shared scientific knowledge of mankind. A scientist, therefore, if he is to learn anything new about the universe, needs to have h...
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Intuitively, one would argue that contraception reduces unwanted pregnancies and reduces the corresponding demand for abortions. The counter argument is that it increases the frequency of sex and its failure rate thereby increases unwanted pregnancies resulting in more abortions.
The question is: what is the benefit of having more people fulfilled sexually instead of frustrated at not having sex? I'm being facetious but it is worth consideration.
But the part of this article I found interesting was the analysis of reported abortion previous to and after 1960- while it is not causation, that does correlate with the marketing of the birth control pill.
The worst mistake of the pro-choice movement was to win Roe V. Wade and stop the experimentation in the States while not securing conscience protections for doctors.
I am sincerely hoping the pro-life movement, should personhood ever be passed, doesn't make the same mistake. It needs to be on a state by state basis and it needs to include conscience protection for doctors working in triage situations.
Sometimes that would be the mother, sometimes that would be the child. But an emergency room doctor NEEDS freedom in his triage decisions without political interference.
This is the same reason that while I'm for personhood, I am *against* heartbeat legislation (which sets the heartbeat as the indicator as to whether or not a fetus is legally alive). There are times when that isn't the hard and fast indicator we would like it to be.
It should be the mother until she is stabilized then the child. Never the other way around. Kids can always get another sibling. They can't get another mother. And I don't want to hear about making sure the baby gets baptized. That's a crock.
Shouldn't you be working? You don't have to answer everything right away.
And yes, I should be working.
As I haven't seen any Vietnamese Spam in a few weeks, I am attempting to turn off moderation. Which may also make me miss a few posts.
I understand that without contraception as an option, some (but not all) couples would only have sex when they want children. There could be a false sense of security that could result in the unwanted pregnancy should the contraceptive fail. This happened to me when my partner used a contraceptive foam (or said she did just to trick me into marrying her). So I guess it isn't that far-fetched an argument.
I recently read that even vasectomies stand a 1/100 chance of healing within the first 5 years- a woman training for a marathon thinking she was safe because her husband had a vasectomy was surprised to find that she had been pregnant for 8 months and was in labor to have a premature baby.
There is no such thing as foolproof contraception.
Destroying that myth is something we *CAN* do about abortion. If you can think of anything we can do in the cases of rape and incest that are this simple, you should be broadcasting it.
I am sad about it, but I would agree that the best thing we can do for medical abortion is NOT the heartbeat legislation that has killed so many women in third world countries and in Ireland. The best thing we can do for medical abortion is take the decision out of the hands of the parents and give it to the doctors, who best know their own capabilities to save one or both patients. Triage conscience protection is therefore what I preach back at pro-lifers.
At least for the woman however. Problems with the man are harder to diagnose.
Couple 2 is counting on a technological solution that will eventually fail, given enough time.
Couple 1, the only failure is in the interpretation of the data.
More Knowledge is power.
I think that would be a really good thing for everybody else.
You'll probably enjoy it more not having to run the meetings.
You're right, I think I will prefer to be sitting down....there's actually a rule about that