If you are against abortions then shouldnt you be FOR birth control?

Question

could you guys give me you opinions

i just never understood how the people who are pro life are against teaching sexual education and against birth control.

obviously abstinence-only agenda is not working.

How much of a person's private life do they (supporters of this practice) want to control?

please share

Answer 1

If you are against abortions then that means you're pro life. Pro-life doesn't mean you preach abstinence. It means giving that child a chance; even if that means giving it up to a foster home.

Answer 2

I am pro-life and believe in s*x  education in schools with abstinence being taught foremost but also all birth control options focusing on condom use.

So it would be like' this is what you need to know about s*x. you should know the repercussions of having s*x so young' but if you are going to do it anyway here are your b/c options.

Answer 3

Many are against s*x education because they believe that if you inform young people about s*x, they will go do it.  If you teach abstinence-only then they will be ignorant of s*x until their wedding night.  Or so the theory goes....  

The reality is that children will make choices.  Do you want them to be informed or not?  Does providing them with birth control mean that you condone what they are doing?  Tough questions for parents.

Answer 4

You would think so, wouldn't you?

Answer 5

People are mindless robots continuously run through the endless cog. Political interest groups, special interest groups, political parties and religions like to control thinking of people. this is one way to do that.

Answer 6

The only reason I'm not too keen on birth control (i.e. the pill) is because I have several friends who still got pregnant even though they were using it correctly. Other than that birth control methods should be taught especially since people keep having s*x at younger and younger ages. Personally, I'm against abortions because it is murder.  

Answer 7

not really.  some people just believe that abstinence is the key.  they believe that you should not have s*x at all until marriage, therefore there is no need for an abortion, or birth control.  not saying i agree, because i definately do not, but it is just what some people believe

Answer 8

No. If you are vegetarian and against killing innocent animals wouldn't it stand to reason that you would also be against the killing of innocent babies? But most vegetarians are radical pro-choice. Some things don't go together. Apples and Oranges.

Answer 9

My personal position is in support of abortion rights, and in support of comprehensive s*x education for children that covers a wide range of birth control options.

That having been said, I will do my best to answer your question in a way that will help you to understand those whose opinions seem illogical to you.

The pro-life position seems natural and reasonable given the assumption that a fetus is a person, with all the rights associated therewith, and that the comfort of the mother carries less importance than the life of the fetus.  One may consider the life of the fetus to have greater potential for future good than the mother's own life, considering that part of the mother's life has already been lived.

There are several possible angles from which one may oppose birth control.  First, there are religious authorities that interpret sacred writings instructing mankind to "be fruitful and multiply."  As such, the use of contraception can be seen to thwart the natural course and order to procreate.  Even in married adults, the use of contraception may therefore be seen as selfish and myopic, sacrificing future generations for short-term pleasure.

With sexual intercourse seen as an action the only justifiable purpose of which is procreation, sexual intercourse by adolescents can be seen as irresponsible, since adolescents are much less equipped to care for children, or even as perverse, if one considers adolescents to be children for the purposes of this argument, and one accepts the almost universally accepted notion that children are to remain asexual, and any sexual acts with respect to them threaten their well-being.

If one accepts adolescent sexual intercourse to be that bad, then it can seem dangerous to offer contraceptive methods to teens, since that could reduce the teens' assessment of the cost and risk of having s*x, such that teens would think s*x to be much less immoral, dangerous, and costly than it is in the minds of those who hold these beliefs.

In response to the argument that abstinence-only education does not work, supporters thereof could argue that it is not acceptable to condone an immoral course of action, simply because it is more easily followed than another immoral course of action.  Some may even argue that it is better that a pair of teens unable to control their urges have unprotected s*x and conceive a child (multiply) than to engage in the selfish act of unproductive s*x, especially if the conception of the child leads to a marriage and to the "settling down" of the teenage parents into better lives, as often happened in the societies of previous centuries.

As for the desire to control a person's private life, I think the supporters of these positions merely wish to maintain a marginally moral society while maintaining their own privacy in how they rear their children.  For example, if one considers a fetus to be a person, then it is not too great a stretch to consider most abortion to be murder, and most of us would not argue for a society that does not outlaw murder because of a right for the privacy of murderers who wish to live their lives a different way.

Secondly, with regard to contraception, I can see proponents of abstinence-only education feeling that if a parent wishes their child to know about contraception, it is entirely within that parent's rights to inform their child.  It is not, however, in the view of abstinence-only proponents, the place of the public school system to tell these children about these options in such a way as to undermine the parents' attempts to instill proper moral values in their children, as though the school were implying that this act were "okay," despite what the parents were telling their children.

While I am sure you disagree with the arguments I have presented here (I, myself disagree with them), I hope I have presented them in a way that helps you to understand the mind-set, logic, and good will of those who hold these beliefs.  I also hope that any other readers of this question who hold pro-life and/or anti-contraceptive positions feel that I have fairly presented their side of the argument.  I hope it is clear that I have tried my best to be fair and respectful to all sides, and I meant no sarcasm or ridicule in any part of my answer, though I may be honestly mistaken about one or another issue.

Answer 10

they want to take women back the 13th century and live under a theology like in iran/much of the middle east...

Answer 11

I don't care what women do to their bodies, they can rip out their uterus's for all I care, there are too many people anyway

Answer 12

I think the only thing pro-lifers are is confused.  I am personally pro-choice and I became even more so after I had to make that decision myself.  Pro-lifers never had to, so they speak from absolutely no experience.  You'd think that they would go ahead and teach about birth control to at least keep the abortion rate low and to keep our youth educated about these things, but it has to do with everyone else's beliefs and in turn, us taxpayers must suffer for it.  Nobody is going to stick to abstinence only and I think the people who decided that this would be a good plan have their heads shoved way up their own behinds!  

It's so easy for others to tell you how you're supposed to live your life.  Unfortunately, that is our society today.  I live in Enterprise, Alabama...and here, they have never even so much as taught anyone about birth control.  Thank God I went to a good school in NY, because I knew everything about it when I got here.  All of my schoolmates are a bit younger or my age and EVERY ONE OF THEM HAS KIDS!!!  They were never taught any kind of s*x ed, so a 16 year old can get married and has 10 kids and everyone just thinks it's okay.  Lordy.

There's just a fine little result of what happens when we let other's control our private lives.  It drives me insane, but I won't fall into their little trap.  I feel like our society is falling apart faster every day because of this...

Answer 13

"abstinence only" is a big joke.  

Bristol Palin, daughter of GOP VP pick, Sarah Palin is a shining example of the failures of abstinance only education.

Like you said, it doesn't work.  Birth control isn't 100% effective, but is better than nothing at all.

Answer 14

im for condoms.  

Answer 15

There is a serious disconnect in your, I hesitate to call it, "logic."  

You should really think about this during homeroom today.  Now get to class.  

Answer 16

i don't think any prolifer has ever had any thing wrong with strong family values, good morals, abstinence, h**l a chastity belt if need be! kinda funny i personally am a prochoice drunken heathen, i just react when i see silly questions designing to hit a nerve.

Answer 17

NO, birth controll prevents unwanted pregnancies, and abortions GET RID OF unwanted pregnancies.

Think about it.