The facts of ovulation say there is approximately a 25 percent of a normally fertile woman getting pregnant in any given cycle. There is a 12 to 24 hour time frame during any normally fertile woman's cycle that she becomes a part of this 25 percent chance. That is a 25 percent chance, once a month, for a 24 hour period that someone can get pregnant. It is the same for a rape victim. I just wonder the percent of rape victim getting pregnant at that precise time she is raped. I read somewhere that approximately 20,000 of the 300,000 rape victims in the US annually become pregnant. There are more than 13 million American women who are at a childbearing age. It is just my personal opinion that it is a personal choice. But let's not disguise someone's personal choice to use abortion as birth control as "saving" someone's life or for the dignity of a rape victiim. bk

It's been my experience that most abortions happen as a result of birth-control failure. ..that is, the pregnancy was came about due to contraceptive failure (anything from a broken condom, to forgetting a pill to "got pregnant regardless"). Of those I've known, it's usually women who were on the pill. One in particular that I remember hadn't been told that antibiotics can nullify the effects of the pill.

In effect, that's what happened to us. For whatever reason, my ex and I found ourselves with a pregnancy on our hands (The Pill be damned, evidently). Here's the hard part. We'd just both gone in for a series of full-torso x-rays and we'd both just started seeing a chiropractor. Doing the math, we discovered that my ex had been pregnant for a few days when she had all of her x-rays.

We discovered just what kinds of risks we were in for and the news was NOT good. The odds of "complications" were now orders of magnitude higher than with our first daughter. It was not an easy decision to abort - far from it.

Within three years, we had another daughter - very much planned - to the point that we were trying to conceive as soon as the doctor said it was ok after the miscarriage I mentioned up-topic. We didn't want TOO much time in between our kids. 5 years was enough

It's not a fun or easy topic to discuss.

Originally Posted by billethkid

Even though the long shot has closed the gap considerably we can only hope and pray Brown shuts out Coakly....would that be a message or what. Coming from a Dem state....ruled by the Kennedys.

Oh please hope and pray it starts here!!!!!!!!

btk

We will know shortly.

Roe v Wade was passed in 1973, Since then there have benn over 49 million abortions in the U.S.

Ask yourself when life begins. I believe life begins at conception.

Unless you believe that life does not begin until birth (that's why we have birthdays, right?) or some other nonsensical view, how does anyone even begin to defend 49 MILLION abortions?

arabesque....or something.

Yes, Mass. has become one of the states where we the people intende(ed) to send a message.

At this point.....the answer to the thread appears to be .....YES!!!!!!!!!!!

The next few days will be interesting as both sides attempt to spin the results.
No matter what they do or say, they DO NOW KNOW we the people are serious....all parties included.

btk