New Study Shows Access to Contraceptives Doesn't Stop Unplanned Pregnancies

From Culture & Cosmos comes word of a new study which might help the pro-contraception folks in the pro-life movement realize the folly of the idea that contraception reduces abortion.

The Alan Guttmacher Institute is the research arm of Planned Parenthood and openly supports abortion and widespread access to contraceptives. The report placed great emphasis on the fact that 48 percent of pregnancies in the US are unplanned. Of those unplanned pregnancies, 47 percent end in abortion, 40 percent are carried to full term and 13 percent end in miscarriage. Advocates of abortion often argue that to decrease abortions, unintended pregnancies must be reduced through increased access to contraceptives. But the Guttmacher Institute's research indicates that 53 percent of women who have unintended pregnancies used a contraceptive method during the month they got pregnant.

The study also notes the importance of marriage in reducing abortion, the reasons women decide to abort their babies, and the disproportinate numbers of minorities who abort their babies. The full report can be found here.

The "95-10" Initiative, which the group, Democrats for Life, is promoting, includes health insurance coverage for contraception and increased federal money for pregnancy prevention education which would likely include information on the use of contraception. Will this data give them second thoughts on promoting contraception? Let us pray that it does.