I saw this statistic. What it actually said was this: Of women who use birth control 27% rely on female sterilization for birth control. and 9.2% of women who use birth control rely on the vasectomy of their partners. This is not 25% of all women of child-bearing age. The study was done on couples using birth control. The one footnote for all these "statistics" was from a study done in 1977
Where do the rest of the claims come from? Perhaps there's a fact-checker here. It looks like the opposite is true.One-fourth of all women in the United States of childbearing age have been sterilized, so the remaining three-fourths come out to 10,000 (or 15,000).
Only half of assailants penetrate her body and/or deposit sperm in her vagina,(1) so let's cut the remaining figures in half. This gives us numbers of 5,000 (or 7,500).
Fifteen percent of men are sterile, that drops that figure to 4,250 (or 6,375).
Fifteen percent of non-surgically sterilized women are naturally sterile. That reduces the number to 3,600 (or 5,400).
Another fifteen percent are on the pill and/or already pregnant. That reduces the number to 3,070 (or 4,600).
I thought it was the type of piece that could spawn discussion. Looks like I was right.
Heh that was my goal. I thought I had remembered that you wanted more of that. You can thank my friend Kirby for this piece. He sent this to me when I'd mentioned that I didn't get/understand the viewpoint. I think he may've been trying to tweak my nose. shrugs I found it fascinating regardless.
I never got around to checking their facts. I generally try to do that though. You've got to be careful about it though. So sorry about that. I'd have put a note if I had noticed that. Even so, I thought it was an interesting way to try and justify the point of view. I've never understood the thought behind it. I think I can glimpse, though, what they're trying to get at. Interesting, isn't it?