Wrong. Abortions are 100% birth control, whether the woman wants an abortion or not.
I have no doubt that the AAC insisted there be no “health” exceptions for the mother as part of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act of 2003 partly because they were convinced use of such exceptions would be abused. In the event that SCOTUS ruled the law unconstitutional, the AAC would have been back with a version with a health exception.
My wife got pregnant unintentionally shortly after we were married. It was not “birth control practiced too late.” It was a contraceptive that failed to prevent conception. That happens. Within a month, we were pretty sure she was pregnant. Our first clue: She got sick and threw up at a McDonald’s, where we had gone for her lunch break.
Not knowing that she’d end up unable to work, we went ahead with our plans to move from Arkansas to Pennsylvania for me to go to graduate school. We figured we’d be able to eke out a meager existence once she got a job to supplement my modest graduate assistant pay.
When it turned out that she had all-day sickness (~20 hours a day) and not just morning sickness, I dropped out of school to get a full-time job. Even though her pregnancy interfered with what we had planned, having an elective abortion never once occurred to us. After a difficult pregnancy — she was hospitialized four of the last six weeks — our son was born in April 1963.
Since he was in the breech position, the doctor decided a few days before delivery to perform a cesarean section. (Isn’t a breech positon often forced for partial birth abortions?) She was conscious enough that she remembers hearing him say something about St. Peter and the pearly gates during the delivery. Afterwards, he told us that both she and our son more than likely would have died without the cesarean.
After a second difficult but intentional pregnancy, our daughter was born in 1967. When my wife again became pregnant unintentionally in 1971, we did discuss her having an elective abortion. Since we lived in Missouri, a local abortion was not an option. However, her obstetrician was prepared to send her to Wisconsin where a health (or life-endangerment?) exception would have allowed a legal abortion.
That was not what she chose. It was her choice, but I had a voice in the decision: The risk to her health was not so great that she couldn’t continue with her pregnancy. We felt we could not in good conscience intentionally end a life that we had started together, even though her being pregnant was risky for her and inconvenient for us.
Not all abortions result from a “woman’s right to choose.” Septic spontaneous abortion put an end to what would have been our second son if her pregnancy had gone full-term. Not only did the Dalkon Shield fail to prevent conception* (including heightened ectopic pregnancy risk), it also failed to prevent bacteria from entering the uterus. Rather than acting as a shield, the tailstring in the Dalkon IUD acted as a wick for bacterial entry.
*One of the inventors claimed “to have studied 600 women using the Shield for a full year and found a failure rate of only 1.1%. He did not disclose that he instructed women in the study to use spermicide with the Shield.”
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