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...Green pointed out in a Washington Post editorial, “The condom has long been a symbol of freedom and—along with contraception??female emancipation.” As such, many who promote the use of condoms to stem the African AIDS crisis do so not for their efficacy as much as on principle...
...involvement stipulations and search instead for efficacious and socially responsible policies that can serve their common interest. Instead of ignoring sex—only focusing on the before and after—they ought to couple abstinence-based education with wide-scale instruction on safer sex and make emergency contraception??which prevents the need to terminate a pregnancy—more widely available to those under 18. To ensure that “abortion is not the only economically feasible option” for impoverished women, advocates from both sides should also join Grizzle in demanding...
...million fewer unwanted pregnancies and 800,000 fewer abortions each year in the United States. While the FDA technically functions as a medical regulator—not a morality stipulator—it decided to delay a decision on the proposal until they could garner more information about emergency contraception??s use among teenagers...
Every time a condom breaks, a woman has to endure an anxious, nail-biting month before she can know for sure that the coast is clear. But thanks to the advent of emergency contraception??what has appropriately been deemed “the morning-after pill”—women now have a safe and effective way of preventing pregnancy when mistakes and accidents happen. That is, of course, unless they happen to have sex on the weekend...
...argument that abstinence would have prevented such tragedies is an outdated and cheaply moralizing one. Most of us live in a world of which sex has irrevocably become an integral part. Arguing that we deny the right of abortion to women who became pregnant because of neglected or failed contraception??arguing that an unwelcome child should be given the right to, more likely than not, a bad life—is akin to arguing that people who contract AIDS through intercourse should be denied treatment because, well, they deserve...
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