{"id":97355,"date":"2016-07-07T21:13:48","date_gmt":"2016-07-08T01:13:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=97355"},"modified":"2016-08-31T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-31T18:56:10","slug":"surprise-condoms-may-actually-increase-teen-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/surprise-condoms-may-actually-increase-teen-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise! Condoms may actually increase teen pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>Everybody knows<\/em> that if pro-lifers were really serious about reducing abortions, they\u2019d be throwing free condoms at everybody, right? To hear many in the mainstream press tell it, this is settled science that only a religious extremist or partisan hack could possibly deny.<\/p>\n<p>Well, Live Action readers know that conventional wisdom is bunk, and now Emma Green at the <em>Atlantic<\/em>\u2014not exactly a hotbed of anti-abortion, theocratic, or right-wing propaganda\u2014reports on a new study that pokes a big hole in it too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www3.nd.edu\/%7Ekbuckles\/condoms.pdf\">study<\/a> published this month, over the course of just a few years, 22 districts in 12 states implemented this kind of program, affecting roughly 484 schools. In about two-thirds of the schools, kids had to go through mandatory counseling to get the condoms.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Condom access didn\u2019t decrease the rate of teen births, though. It seems, in fact, to have increased it. The researchers estimate that these programs were responsible for roughly two additional births per 1,000 teens. And this rate was significantly higher when students could get condoms without any counseling. The effects would have been even greater if condoms were freely available to the entire U.S. high-school-age population, the researchers suggest\u2014in that case, they projected, there would have been an additional five births per 1,000 teens.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What? You mean to tell me that teenagers are more likely to get pregnant when placing their hope in something with an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/reproductivehealth\/unintendedpregnancy\/pdf\/contraceptive_methods_508.pdf\">18% failure rate<\/a> than they are not risking sex in the first place? Thank God we finally have a study to tell us what we couldn\u2019t possibly have gleaned from basic common sense!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, while acknowledging the wrench this throws into the \u201cMORE CONDOMS EVERYWHERE\u201d narrative, Green tries to suggest it\u2019s \u201calso troublesome for those who oppose sex education in schools,\u201d because while \u201c[e]asy access to condoms created worse outcomes for students, not better,\u201d \u201cit seems that lack of access to information may have hurt them even more\u201d:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The debate over contraception distribution in schools often focuses on whether districts should only teach abstinence. In the schools included in this study, \u201ccounseling often included the message that abstinence is the safest method of protection against STIs,\u201d wrote the researchers, Kasey Buckles and Daniel Hungerman of Notre Dame, in an email. But the programs weren\u2019t necessarily geared toward abstinence\u2014\u201cin some cases, a counselor might be required to show how a condom is put on, and in other cases a counselor might be forbidden from doing that.\u201d Opponents worry that this kind of show-and-tell, paired with easy access to condoms, encourages kids to have sex or engage in risky sexual behavior. The researchers speculated that the \u201990s-era condom programs might have done exactly that.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Well, sure, <em>just<\/em> telling kids to be abstinent won\u2019t do any good, but that\u2019s a straw-man. The abstinence programs that <a href=\"\/news\/abstinence-hating-bloggers-double-down-on-exploiting-elizabeth-smart\/\">have shown to be highly effective<\/a> go in-depth enough to ensure that students understand <em>why<\/em> they should be abstinent. Another straw-man polluting the discussion is the idea that abstinence education somehow means denying the existence of birth control, when in reality <em>of course<\/em> a proper program addresses it; how else did you think it would teach students the risks and limitations of the various birth control\u00a0methods, so that they understand there is only one foolproof solution?<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These trends have likely been driven by a number of factors, including new public-health policies. Recently, a number of programs have shifted their emphasis away from condoms and toward hormonal birth control. While condoms are still the most common kind of contraception used by teens, they have higher failure rates for preventing pregnancy than hormonal birth control. As the researchers in this study point out, girls also have less control over condom use than they do over something like the pill; they can make a long-term decision to get on birth control, rather than deciding whether or not to use a condom when they\u2019re about to have sex.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">That\u2019s why some states and localities are pushing for wider distribution of other kinds of birth control, including long-acting reversible contraceptives, or LARCs. An initial study of one such program\u2014Colorado\u2019s Family Planning Initiative, founded in 2009\u2014suggests it has reduced teen birth rates in the state by about 5 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>It is true that other contraceptives are more reliable than condoms, but it doesn\u2019t follow that distributing them to teens is a good idea. As <a href=\"\/news\/debunking-the-atlantics-flawed-case-for-school-contraception-distribution\/\">we covered here<\/a>, there is a great deal of research corroborating the newest study\u2019s conclusion that contraception distribution generally increases teen pregnancies rather than reducing them. In particular the CFPI study Green cites is largely worthless\u2014it credited the program for a decline that started before it was implemented, failed to control for a wide range of variables in the groups it was comparing, and most importantly disregarded a decline nearly as large in counties that <em>didn\u2019t even have<\/em> the program.<\/p>\n<p>In April, we <a href=\"\/news\/guttmachers-defense-of-deleted-pregnancy-data-falls-short\/\">covered<\/a> revelations that the pro-abortion Guttmacher Institute manipulated data to cover up the likelihood that Planned Parenthood\u2019s promotion of LARCs in the mid-1990s contributed to an increase in unintended pregnancies.<\/p>\n<p>Nobody is saying that condoms, LARCs, etc. don\u2019t prevent <em>any<\/em> pregnancies; we\u2019re saying that because our society is already so saturated in <a href=\"\/news\/sandra-fluke-returns-forced-contraception-activist-to-campaign-for-obama\/\">inexpensive, easily-obtainable birth control<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economicshelp.org\/microessays\/costs\/diminishing-returns\/\">law of diminishing marginal returns<\/a> has kicked in. Pretty much all that can be realistically prevented already is, and continuing to pour more into the country doesn\u2019t address the <em>behavioral<\/em> reasons why unwanted pregnancies still happen; it just encourages more of the behavior that causes them in the first place.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, the central fallacy of the abortion-on-demand, teen causal sex movement is simple: it\u2019s billing its solutions as \u201csafe\u201d sex when really, all they\u2019re doing is making promiscuity marginally less unsafe\u2014while scoffing at the one guaranteed way to be fully safe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Everybody knows that if pro-lifers were really serious about reducing abortions, they\u2019d be throwing free condoms at everybody, right? To hear many in the mainstream press tell it, this is settled science that only a religious extremist or partisan hack could possibly deny. Well, Live Action readers know that conventional wisdom is bunk, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":52524,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[374,145,5349,24,543,8773,3977,375,2487,1365,9393],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Surprise! 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