The UK Telegraph reports an interesting connection between excessive drinking and abortion.
Research has found that almost nine in ten women who attended a sexual health clinic admitted binge drinking - an average of two and a half bottles of wine in one sitting.
Three quarters said they had unprotected sex because they were drunk.
Women who were diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection drank 40 per cent more than those who did not, showing a much stronger link between risky behaviour and alcohol consumption than previous thought.
Apparently education wasn't a factor here; as anyone who's ever been drunk knows, rational thought and restraint goes out the door the drunker you get.
Access to contraceptives doesn't seem to have been an issue; being intoxicated led these women not to care.
The article says 1/3 of the women in the study got pregnant, and nearly half of those got an abortion.
We return to the inescapable truth that most moral choices have real-world consequences. Sometimes those choices produce ripples that affect others--like the termination of a human life who's only crime was to be conceived in drunken lust by a woman who sees the child as something equivalent to a hangover.
3 comments:
Demon rum kills babies! So where's the petition to ban binge drinking... or alcohol altogether?
Wouldn't be a bad idea. Alcohol probably causes more deaths and illnesses than illegal drugs. But we tried that once and people were too addicted to the booze for it to stick. But if you'll put together a petition, Cory, I'll sign it!
"...like the termination of a human life who's only crime was to be conceived in drunken lust by a woman who sees the child as something equivalent to a hangover."
Very well put, Mr. Ellis.
Drinking by college students today goes far beyond the occasional weekend beer bashes of my college days. It is now several nights a week. On my campus we have a new tradition of "Thirst Thursday" in which a large percentage of students go out and get so hammered that many profs no longer even attempt to have Friday classes. These students continue the party all through the weekend. There are, no doubt, countless drunken hookups every week and untold numbers of babies killed as a consequence.
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