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Is contraception the same as abortion?

"Hillary Clinton speaks out against Bush plan to define contraception as abortion."

President Bush announced today that his administration is moving to define contraception like birth control pills and intrauterine devices as abortion. If the President is successful, it would aid retailers who are unwilling to provide birth control in their pharmacies, and inhibit states that have recently passed laws to ensure that contraception is made more widely available. Do you think that contraception should be defined as abortion?

	Yes, contraception is abortion.
	No, contraception is not abortion. Right choice

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Created On:	7/18/08 at 7:09pm (350 days ago)
Closes On:	7/25/08 at 11:59pm (343 days ago)
Settles On:	7/25/08 at 11:59pm (343 days ago)

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leeloverfan wrote 343 days ago

Birth control pills and contreceptives should be acceptable. even though I rally don't believe in abortion, but abortion should take effect only if the mother or baby is very sick that nothing can be handled. than abortion should acurr but only within medicial reasons. just my opinion.

justpam-68 wrote 343 days ago

Of course there is a difference,contraception is using caution when you are not ready to be a parent,abortion depending on the situation,is a choice you make after you have been careless. Unless of course is was forced on a girl,then it no longer becomes careless on the womans part!

bulava wrote 343 days ago

No, no and no!

beth.rawsthorne wrote 344 days ago

p.s. CONTRACEPTION AND ABORTION ARE 2 DIFFERENT THINGS!!! ABORTION KILLING A LIFE CONTRACEPTION SAFE also if a girl has a contraceptrive needle and get raped or she doesn't get the needle and gets raped why would she want to keep her rapist's baby. but I don't mind coz I am from England any way plus i wouldn't fool around at such a young age coz I'm not that kind of girl!!!

beth.rawsthorne wrote 344 days ago

Abortion is getting rid of a baby after it was conceived, but contraception doesn't let you have a baby so you are not depriving any life. The fetus is killed off with abortion it is not made if you use contraception... so I think contraception is not abortion.

stacey_p1nk_1991 wrote 344 days ago

Contraception is nothing to with abortion.

nateonthenet wrote 346 days ago

If they do go back to not allowing it, it doesn't mean that it will stop happening, it means that there will be injuries & death from people doing it for them selves, again. doctors do it properly, the patients that do it them selves don't have ability to do it safely by them selves. It isn't legal because it's right, it's legal to prevent further injuries from home jobs. Maybe there should be laws that if you're religious you will be jailed for aborting/sinning? That is where we should be going with th

triciat59 wrote 348 days ago

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Contraception and abortion have gone on since the beginning of time, and will continue. Seems dumb to legislate something that cannot be changed. Back in the caveman days, it was done with herbs.

nateonthenet wrote 348 days ago

hawkfish is correct on the last comment!!!
This should make a difference!

nateonthenet wrote 348 days ago

if it is, then so is masturbation and ovulating without fertilisation (a issue for minors-is he going to be suggesting under-age sex next?) what about wet dreams? should I scrape it into a jar for later? would that stop me from being an abortionist?
Bush should think this one through, he's asking us to be illogical, not too much of a stretch judging by the yes comments here!
Y'all make me laugh!!!

hawkfish wrote 349 days ago

In addition, according to the article, this definition is part of a Department of Health memo. It is not a 'directive' from the President. He can either show support for it or oppose it. This article doesn't specify at all how, or his cabinet, feel about this definition.

Please get a clue as to how the government actually works.

hawkfish wrote 349 days ago

I don't feel this way, but I know there are many people who believe that any unnatural interference with the conception process is tantamount to an abortion, or that they are all the same thing.

thestopnshop wrote 349 days ago

I do not believe this to be true. Please show me where you read this or seen it. This does not make any common sense.

magadha22 wrote 349 days ago

rubbish...abortion is a procedure to done after the sex..at a certain month..but where as the contraception is a process need to get advanced before getting a life in stomach...HILARY knows coz ...like am not commenting her but in a +ve way

thestopnshop wrote 349 days ago

I'd like to know where you read that???

charlieman3172 wrote 349 days ago

nothing is 100 percent effective

jungleking747 wrote 350 days ago

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contraception is not a bortion coz the lady doesnot go to hospital and no dactor well be involved

diya_ghosh wrote 350 days ago

what the hell?? how is it??? contracepetion is used for family planning, you might want a kid later on but not when you want to do it... abortion is when you want to get rid of the kid when it has started growing in your "stomach". GEORGE BUSH HAS GONE COMPLETELY MAD AND NEADS TO GOOOOOO.

sara_walsh_vball_67 wrote 350 days ago

Bush is an idiot! How can he even CONCIDER contraception as a form of abortion? Does he even know what abortion is?! Its killing a baby, and last time I checked, contraceptives had nothing to do with murdering unborn babies. In fact, when using a contraceptive, there isn't even a baby involved...THATS THE PIONT! OMG Bush! Get a clue!

dreamstealers_revenge wrote 350 days ago

ok legally preventing it is not abortion a egg has to be 12 to 16 weeks old in humans to even be considered a legal life.bush is a con and a legal lliving abortion hes a idiot,and you idiots voted him in so take what he gives you dums asses

leatherbucketseats wrote 350 days ago

How ridiculous!
With contraception being defined as abortion, Bush's legacy will be a massive increase in population and a strain on resources, leading to poverty and more crime as prices rise across the board.
Not one of his best ideas (has he had a good one yet?)

lykinswr wrote 350 days ago

That's the dumbest thing Bush has said yet. And to think that he is the president for six more months. Wow.

Anntia wrote 350 days ago

I believe that contraception is not abortion, contraception prevents the egg from fertilizing before reach the womb, where as abortion is fertilized and in the womb where - upon growth of the fetous to form a human life.

Lissa2723 wrote 350 days ago

My IUD could be considered abortion - My dr said they don't know what about it works, they just know it does, but that was 5 years ago too. The lining of the uterus is so thin the fertilized egg can't attach itself, or maybe it stops ovulation, or messes with the sperm. All I know is that it kept me baby free for 5 years.

lori_boyd10 wrote 350 days ago

Bush is an ass

lostangelbearsr wrote 350 days ago

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The answer to Child abuse and the such is to teach that Sex is not something to be taken lightly or looked at as "FUN"!!!!! We need to teach abstinence!!!!! We need to tell people the factual truth sex is for having babies there is NO other logical reason to have sex!!!! God allows sex to go on for the sole purpose of birth it is not meant as a toy nor a game!!!! GET A CLUE ALREADY!!!!

slimchick20 wrote 350 days ago

No dummy contraception can never be categorized as abortion because its not like its a foetus which is a living being. You are preventing the chance of pregancy not killing anything. Its not like it has been created.

ann9854302 wrote 350 days ago

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how can you kill something that hasn't been created? prevention is better than finding babies that were alive and breathing in a garbage can somewhere or in a body of water. aren't there enough children dying at the hands of ppl (I'm not EVEN going to call them parents) that didn't want them... I would rather prevent a child from suffering, birth control is preventing a child from being murdered

melvinhakeem wrote 350 days ago

no, that is so stupid of him. If a sperm as not fertilized an egg there is no baby. using any form of method to prevent this happening could never be abortion. an abortion is to remove a fertilized egg from the female uterus.

arran_b_jones wrote 350 days ago

no it just means u wanna have a bit of fun !

sharmasubhashk wrote 350 days ago

no its not same as abortion!!

nique1212 wrote 350 days ago

Ok I so have to add...Are we not still at war with a continously rising economy?Doesn't he have THAT to tend to amongst other more important issues that actually ARE issues and make sense?!Seriously like he just got bored. PRIORITIZE BUSH and quit creating ridiculous laws. Whatever reason there has to be some government serving agenda here

dbxd1 wrote 350 days ago

no this is a dumb question if you use a contrception life doesnt began if not you have to abort a childs life because you didnt have the since to be resonsable and the children get it again

nique1212 wrote 350 days ago

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Ok WHAT? Oh my god Bush is an idiot! Why on earth would this even be considered?So I suppose we should make oral sex illegal since now unfertilized sperm is apparently a life. Holy crap better make sure you aim right and dont waste any of that sounds gross but pretty much what he is saying how on earth could say a pill that prevents you from becoming fertile be abortion? Am I not understanding htis correctly?! I need to wake up I am in a bad nightmare with a president that takes idiot pills.

bluemoon332 wrote 350 days ago

contraception is prevention from forming a life in the womb.abortion is a killing of a featus which is alive.

jasmine0437 wrote 350 days ago

no....they are entirely two different things.

missbutterfly_53 wrote 350 days ago

i dont believe abortion to be the same as contraception because abortion is like murder you're killing the life of an innocent human being or in this case a baby but contraception is just to prevent unwanted pregnancies

A.J_ConverseFreaks wrote 350 days ago

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I Agree With Bush. Contrecption is to prevent Pregnancy and its the same thing with abortion which Canceling the baby u have by removing.

leeloverfan wrote 350 days ago

I agree with the third answer though, the first answer is to have contreception to prevent pregneantcy.

leeloverfan wrote 350 days ago

i'm not too sure about the answer to this one. although. abortion is killing a precious life, and the only way I can see abortion is if the baby mor mother would have a serious medicial problem where abortion should take place.

lancekendall69 wrote 350 days ago

Hell no its not abortion. How is it all the religious wignuts have managed to disassemble our rights and force their warped mindset into public policy? President bush is the biggest disaster to ever happen to America and many of us cant wait for him to be gone. Cant pass any useful legislation but hes always ready to ban abortion or stem cell research or push pooolicy that is based in his religious beliefs, not for the betterment of all Americans. Learn some biology Bush and company..enough lies already.

radinmfuad wrote 350 days ago

No, it's two different thing. Contraception is preventing the creation of life, whereas abortion is killing a life that was initially created by not preventing it to happen.

vidhatri1992 wrote 350 days ago

not at all.....

luzandrea_04 wrote 350 days ago

no, i don't think so. :)

nasira102 wrote 350 days ago

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Yes, contraception is abortion.

tha_mil_sona wrote 350 days ago

what scares me the most is that people actually voted for that idiot! Another example of bushwhacked!

lady_madjo_08 wrote 350 days ago

I think the two is different... Contraception is the act of preventing a pregnancy to happen in the near future so it means a pregnancy is not yet taken place while an abortion is the act of killing a life which is already exist...

koickgold wrote 350 days ago

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Now we know that Bush is truly an imbecile!

itrulyloveflippy wrote 350 days ago

taking away contreception is like making you chose between a life and sex
either have sex and have tonnes of children or dont have sex and no children
but what will life be like without sex???? HELL!!!

abby_alfaro2001 wrote 350 days ago

it is just the same..

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