NARAL Pro-Choice America hosted a fundraiser September 18 entitled “Men for Choice.” The purpose of the event was to make sure that any coital act, which had the undesired natural consequence of pregnancy, could be undone by abortion.
So the abortion movement has finally declared itself. Its purpose is the liberation of men, not women. Pro-lifers have known for many years that the availability of abortion made it more difficult for women to decline sexual advances.
Prior to the arrival of contraceptive steroids, normal feminine women sought relationship first and saw the sexual union as its culmination. But the early feminists had no time for that.
Bella Abzug, an early communist and later a congresswoman, was the founder of the Women’s Educational and Development Organization (WEDO). At the 1994 United Nations (UN) Conference on Population and Development in Cairo she told her group “abortion is ours, we’re not going to let them take that from us.” I happened to be in the next room and heard not only her words, but the intensity with which she insisted that abortion was the lynchpin of the women’s movement.
WEDO has maintained a strong presence at the UN. According to C-FAM, WEDO has tried to bully countries where abortion is illegal to legalize it, often by claiming authority from statements which did not culminate in binding documents.
How did things reach this point? The oral contraceptive steroids, which began to be widely used in the ‘60s, were all masculinizing to some extent. The list of side effects is long, including depression by up to one third of users and low sexual drive.
Manufacturers understood this and produced two products which did not have masculinizing effects. Despite the increased risk of blood clots, oral contraceptives with this potentially deadly side effect remain on the market.
Most of the steroidal contraceptives available today have a masculinizing effect. Could this be driving women’s aggression as well as shifting their interests? One can only speculate because much research in this area is regularly refused publication by the professional journals that depend on funding support from contraceptive advertisements. However some researchers have succeeding in publishing their findings which document the shift to a hook-up culture.
Many girls who engage in sex are conflicted about taking their pills. They “forget” to take them.
Most doctors claim this is due to adolescent irresponsibility and helpfully try to prescribe long acting reversible contraception (LARC’s) to make sure that no matter what the woman’s normal desire for conception may be, it will not happen.
What will happen is an ever increasing epidemic of sexually transmitted infections beyond the current 50% rate among 15-19 years old sexually active girls as well as emotional damage from, rightly, feeling used.
The CDC, the American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, the Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine and even Pediatricians are all advocating LARC’s for teens, as if fertility were a disease that must be defunctionalized to permit untrammeled sexual activity which is thought to occur universally. It isn’t.
Everyone isn’t “doing it.” We have found that teaching teens to understand and value their sexuality and fertility undergirds remaining chaste. Among those who have already begun sexual activity one to two-thirds stop. This is true of males as well as females.
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Our culture has discounted human free will. When we try to protect kids from harm by depriving them of free and fully informed choice, the harm that comes is actually greater.
Today men have a short term advantage in the sexual sphere with LARC’s and freely available abortion. But the long term effect will be to keep them adolescent, seeking only themselves and depriving them of the joy of sharing life with a committed partner and the fulfillment of becoming a parent.
Hanna Klaus, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. (Sr. Miriam Paul) is a Medical Mission Sister who directed the Departments of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi, Pakistan from 1961-66, and in Dhaka, Bangladesh from 1966-68. She also founded and (formerly) directed the Natural Family Planning Center of Washington, D.C., Inc. and the Teen STAR Program. She is a gynecologist who has conducted use-effectiveness research and training of teachers of the Billings Ovulation Method for 25 years, and the Teen STAR Program since 1980. Teen STAR, Sexuality Teaching in the context of Adult Responsibility®, is an international proactive sexuality education program for teens which currently operates in more than 30 countries. Holistic Sexuality is a program for college students offered either as a credit course, or an elective.
