Lawrence B. Finer, Ph.D., TCPalm.com
March 4, 2008
Anne C. Lotierzo (“Official at Guttmacher Institute should ‘check his own Web site’,” Feb. 26) attempts to use a Guttmacher Institute statistic (half of women having abortions used contraception in the month they became pregnant) as evidence that birth control “paves the way” to abortion. That argument may come as a surprise to the millions of American couples who have successfully used contraception for years, or even decades.
It also shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the math involved.
