{"id":22475,"date":"2012-10-22T14:32:24","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T18:32:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=22475"},"modified":"2012-10-23T12:35:31","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T16:35:31","slug":"pro-life-obama-redux-no-obamacare-wont-reduce-abortion-rates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-obama-redux-no-obamacare-wont-reduce-abortion-rates\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Pro-life Obama&#8221; redux: No, ObamaCare won&#8217;t reduce abortion rates"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><a href=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Birth-control-advantages.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18487\" title=\"Birth Control Pill Container\" src=\"\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/Birth-control-advantages-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a>Over at <em>Religion Dispatches<\/em>, Eric Miller <a href=\"http:\/\/www.religiondispatches.org\/archive\/sexandgender\/6501\/barack_obama,_pro-life_hero_\">revisits<\/a> the claim made by \u201cCatholics for Obama\u201d co-chair Nicholas Cafardi in August that Barack Obama is the one true pro-life candidate. As <a href=\"\/news\/politics\/catholics-for-obama-co-chair-lies-to-present-obama-as-more-pro-life-than-romney\/\">I noted<\/a> at the time, the only way Cafardi could make such an argument was by jam-packing his piece with lies about both Obama and Mitt Romney, but that doesn\u2019t stop Miller from proclaiming Obama a \u201cpro-life hero. Yes, really\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A few weeks later, just thirty-four days before the election, that argument became even stronger.<\/p>\n<p>On\u00a0October 3rd researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/greenjournal\/Abstract\/publishahead\/Preventing_Unintended_Pregnancies_by_Providing.99945.aspx\">published a study<\/a> with profound implications for policymaking in the United States. According to Dr. Jeffery Peipert, the study\u2019s lead author, abortion rates can be expected to decline significantly\u2014perhaps up to 75 percent\u2014when contraceptives are made available to women free of charge. Declaring himself \u201cvery surprised\u201d at the results, Peipert requested expedient publication of the study, noting its relevance to the upcoming election.<\/p>\n<p>As most observers surely know, the Affordable Care Act (aka\u00a0\u201cObamacare\u201d)\u00a0requires insurance coverage for birth control, a provision staunchly opposed by most of the same religious conservatives who oppose legalized abortion. If Peipert is correct, however, the ACA may prove the single most effective piece of \u201cpro-life\u201d legislation in the past forty years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For the rest of the article, Miller assumes as a given that the study is correct, and he makes the rest of his argument contingent upon the premise that mandating birth control coverage reduces abortion rates &#8211; namely, his assertion that pro-lifers are foolish and\/or disingenuous to say we oppose abortion while also opposing something that (allegedly) is effective in preventing what we claim to be against.<\/p>\n<p>But as Rich Poupard at Life Training Institute <a href=\"http:\/\/lti-blog.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/what-contraceptive-choice-study-really.html\">explains<\/a>, Miller\u2019s omitting several very important caveats:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It was not an attempt to study whether increased access to traditional contraceptives would increase their use and effectiveness, but an attempt to convince women to change the type of contraception that was used. \u00a0This is very important, and almost never mentioned in the news reports.<\/p>\n<p>Second, the study group itself is very interesting. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/329898\/new-study-exaggerates-benefits-no-cost-contraception-michael-j-new\">\u00a0Dr. Michael New<\/a> has mentioned that there was no control group to compare the study group to. \u00a0However, even more important is the characteristics of the group itself. \u00a0Women who volunteered for the project were recruited mainly from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC3003915\/table\/T2\/\">Washington University and various abortion and family planning clinics<\/a>. \u00a0In order to be involved in the program, the women had to be desiring contraception and be willing to change the type of contraception that they were presently using (if any).\u00a0 66% of the women in the program had previously experienced an unintended pregnancy, and 40% of them had a previous abortion. \u00a039% of the women had a history of an STD, and 6% presently had an STD.<\/p>\n<p>Is it possible that this group, who were already seeking contraception and most have experienced an unintended\u00a0pregnancy, may be more willing and motivated to change their contraceptive method for this study? \u00a0Data extrapolated from this group of women cannot be accurately applied to the public at large, yet that is exactly what the news media would have us believe.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, the goal of the study was to convince women to forgo traditional methods of contraception (mainly OCs) in favor of more effective, long-term methods. \u00a0These LARC methods were IUDs or implantable hormonal contraceptives. \u00a0Over 75% of the women in the study were convinced to change from traditional methods to longer acting methods, and this accounts for the majority of the success in preventing unplanned pregnancies. \u00a0 The challenge that the researchers had, and one that they were highly successful in this group, was to convince women to change from a non-invasive method of contraception to an invasive one. \u00a0There is no reason to believe that women in the general public, and especially teens, would be willing to choose these more invasive methods over regular OCs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miller also fails to consider the Center for Disease Control\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/bullpen\/column\/224398\/the-arrogance-of-obamas-accommodation\/1\">finding<\/a> that lack of \u201caccess\u201d to contraception is an almost nonexistent reason for non-use, or that pro-choice, pro-contraception states <a href=\"http:\/\/liveaction.org\/blog\/safe-legal-and-rare-ross-douthat-exposes-the-emptiness-of-pro-aborts-claims-to-fight-unplanned-pregnancy\/\">don&#8217;t actually reduce<\/a> abortion rates.<\/p>\n<p>More importantly, one (bogus) \u201cpro-life\u201d position cannot outweigh a multitude of anti-life ones. Simply ask yourself: is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.weeklystandard.com\/blogs\/video-obama-says-hes-pro-choice-third-trimester-abortions_650524.html?nopager=1\">keeping abortion legal<\/a> at any point and for any reason likely to mean more abortions or fewer? What about subsidizing abortion <a href=\"\/news\/politics\/bart-stupak-admits-obamacare-gives-tax-dollars-to-abortion\/\">at home<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/International\/story?id=6716958&amp;page=1#.UIV2roXiOOU\">abroad<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>And of course, all of this is before we even get into the little matter of justice. Abortion isn\u2019t just bad for society; every time one is performed, <em>somebody is grievously wronged<\/em>. His or her unalienable rights are irreversibly violated. Miller is talking as if the question is how to create jobs, when the real issue is closer to how to prevent lynching. We all instinctively recognize why the former approach can\u2019t be applied to the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, Miller mocks the religious liberty and conscience rights concerns of ObamaCare critics with the same moral and factual unseriousness he brings to the table on abortion. He suggests that Obama\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/bullpen\/column\/224398\/the-arrogance-of-obamas-accommodation\/1\">bogus<\/a> &#8220;accommodation&#8221; should be good enough for us and alleges that our opposition is insincere:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Such efforts by social conservatives to oppose the ACA betray both an unseemly partisanship and a nervous insecurity. It seems entirely plausible that, in the contraception mandate, leaders of these groups see not a violation of their own freedom so much as a weakening of their ability to dictate the terms by which their members live.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s also worth noting that, as a premise for political arguments, religious freedom has become strikingly promiscuous in recent years. Now cited as a justification for opposition to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2012\/01\/13\/same-sex-marriage-religious-freedom_n_1202862.html\">same-sex marriage<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.christianitytoday.com\/ct\/2010\/may\/1.49.html\">anti-discrimination law<\/a>, and\u2014stunningly\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/guest-voices\/post\/michigan-anti-bullying-law-protects-religious-bullies\/2011\/11\/06\/gIQAhZIdtM_blog.html\">anti-bullying initiatives<\/a>, conservative activists are finding they may apply religious freedom to any number of disparate issues. Apart from trivializing what ought to be a sacred liberal right, the widespread deployment of religious freedom arguments indicates a weak rhetorical posture. In each of the cases mentioned above, opponents of a particular piece of legislation embraced religious freedom only after other strategies failed to persuade. Such arguments thus served as a sort of fallback position, allowing their advocates to re-frame the debate on terms entirely separate from the practical merits of the policy at issue.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, nowhere in those two paragraphs does Miller try to explain why the decision to insure or not insure contraception isn\u2019t a right falling under the umbrella of religious liberty. Nowhere does he explain why it\u2019s just or lawful for the federal government to assert such power over private entities. To him, the mere act of not surrendering one\u2019s liberties at government\u2019s behest is evidence of sinister motives.<\/p>\n<p>That and Miller&#8217;s desire for debate to eschew pesky moral considerations in favor of discussing only \u201cpractical merits\u201d are classic indicators of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Progressivism-Ronald-J-Pestritto\/dp\/0739123041\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1289942061&amp;sr=8-1\">pathology of Progressivism<\/a>: arbitrarily define \u201ccommon good\u201d as \u201cwhatever Progressives want,\u201d thereby automatically defining all dissent as \u201cspecial interest,\u201d and declare closed any serious debate about first principles, leaving only the fine print to be decided, preferably by unelected, unaccountable \u201cexperts\u201d rather than we the people.<\/p>\n<p>All that effort to deceive pro-life voters makes one wonder: if pro-lifers are so bad and abortion is so important, then why do pro-choicers try so hard to co-opt our name and convince people that they\u2019re working toward our goals?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Astonishing contortions required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Pro-life Obama&quot; 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