What are the reasons for the connection between contraception and abortion?
• If contraception fails, abortion is the insurance option. 50 % of abortions happen after contraception failure. • Contraception leads to an attitude against children. The intimate relationship of sex and children is denied. The child is seen as a danger and an intruder. • Contraception enables frequent changes of partner. This leads to more unwanted pregnancies and therefore abortions. • In the one-sided contraception advice and relationship advice habitually provided for young people sexuality is portrayed exclusively as a source of fun and as an outlet for lust. Young people feel they have to keep up with the others. This again can lead to pregnancies and abortions. • Some contraceptive methods are actually abortive. The step to abortion thus becomes small. Condom (contraceptive) ->Pill (contraceptive and some abortive features)->Morning after pill (abortive)->abortion What are the side effects of the contraceptive pill? • It carries a higher risk of strokes and heart attacks. The
