“Planned Parenthood is again spewing forth its usual self-serving claim that the declines in U.S. teen pregnancy rates seen throughout the 1990s were due to contraception,” said Ed Szymkowiak, national director of American Life League’s STOPP International. “Obviously, such a claim is designed to get more people to support Planned Parenthood’s big money-making contraception business, which depends upon encouraging kids to become sexually active.”
Planned Parenthood’s Alan Guttmacher Institute published the claim in a February 19, 2004 media release. Szymkowiak pointed out two studies that debunk Planned Parenthood’s claim and indicate that greater abstinence among teens is a main cause for the U.S. pregnancy declines.
“We must also remember that some so-called contraceptives that became more widely used in the 1990’s – such as implants, injections and emergency contraception – sometimes act by preventing an already conceived human being from implanting in his or her mother’s womb, thereby killing the child.” said Szymkowiak.
“Such early killings are not counted as abortions in Planned Parenthood’s studies, and the corresponding pregnancies are not counted either,” Szymkowiak added. “As pre-implantation chemical killing becomes more popular, it will push down post-implantation pregnancy and abortion numbers, but that’s really nothing to celebrate.”
Release issued: 24 Feb 04
