Some good news from the Reality Based Community

A new study published this week in a prestigious medical journal helps debunks abortion opponents’ claim that women who become pregnant are becoming less likely to choose abortion.

As the national abortion rate declines, members of the anti-abortion community have argued it’s because more women are reconsidering the wisdom of ending a pregnancy. They say that laws designed to delay women’s access to abortion — such as requirements that women view an ultrasound before continuing with the procedure — are successfully changing the culture and helping convince women to choose life.

“This is a post-sonogram generation,” Charmaine Yoest, the president of Americans United for Life, a conservative group that helps write state-level abortion restrictions, told the Washington Post in 2014 in response to a study showing the national abortion rate had dropped. “There is increased awareness throughout our culture of the moral weight of the unborn baby. And that’s a good thing.”

But the evidence says otherwise. The abortion rate is declining because fewer women are accidentally getting pregnant, according to a new study from reproductive health researchers who tracked a sharp drop in unintended pregnancies in recent years.

The Guttmacher Institute, an organization that closely tracks the country’s pregnancy and abortion rates, found a striking 18 percent decline in unplanned pregnancies between 2008 and 2011. At the same time, they observed the rate of contraceptive use increasing. They also found evidence that more women are choosing the best forms of birth control. Use of the most effective contraception methods, like the IUD, more than tripled between 2007 and 2012.

“These findings provide significant new clarity for the U.S. abortion debate,” said Joerg Dreweke, a researcher at the organization who wrote a policy analysis accompanying the new study. “We now know that abortion declined primarily because of fewer unintended pregnancies, and not because fewer women decided to end an unwanted pregnancy.”

Tellingly, the proportion of unintended pregnancies that end in abortion has remained relatively constant — suggesting that, when faced with an unexpected decision about whether to become a parent, U.S. women are not shifting toward choosing parenthood over abortion.

What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex. She's having so much sex she can't afford the contraception. Can you imagine if you're her parents how proud of Sandra Fluke you would be? Your daughter goes up to a congressional hearing conducted by the Botox-filled Nancy Pelosi and testifies she's having so much sex she can't afford her own birth control pills and she agrees that Obama should provide them, or the Pop.