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Originally Posted by Osem
I've made my personal position on abortion clear and posted the whole page for people to read in it's entirety - if I'd wanted to obscure the context I'd hardly have done that.
Most of us accept why abortion is sometimes sadly necessary even in a first world country with universal access to free contraception however it's still important to ask just why so many abortions are required when it's clear that only a proportion are due to genuine contraceptive failure.
I quoted the last paragraph simply because it related directly to the point of this thread and contrary to what some people still claim, confirms the view of some groups/people out there view abortion as just another acceptable form of contraception.
So far nobody has been able to explain why despite the availability of highly effective methods of contraception so many young women seem to get pregnant more than once and then have abortions.
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I added my quote to put yours into context, otherwise people might get the idea that they were suggesting abortion as primary contraception (as you appear to be suggesting), when they're actually saying that it's being used as a backup when primary has failed.
"Highly effective" is not 100%, condoms break, or slip off. The pill isn't always effective, the morning after pills don't always work, even vasectomies can result in pregnancies.
As for their health, did you actually read the page you linked to?
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The recent Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists guideline, The Care of Women Requesting Induced Abortion (1), provides evidence based on systematic literature reviews that abortion cannot be considered a serious risk to women's physical or mental health.
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