Early Abortions Are Skyrocketing This Week: Here’s Why
Having unprotected sex may invite severe and unforgettable consequences. The act isn’t frivolous, by any means, despite how society pitches it today. It isn’t just another ‘thing to do’. Nor does it come without risk. Overall, it’s a big responsibility, a decision that shouldn’t be taken lightly.
You would think this is common sense. You would be wrong, especially when considering the results of a recent study conducted by Texas Tech University. Called the Eureka study, the results demonstrate just how flagrant many women in our society can be with their bodies — and those of innocent fetuses — when a good time is up for grabs.
According to EurekAlert, the study “focused on sales of levonorgestrel in the week following New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day from 2016 to 2022 in US retail outlets including grocery stores, drug stores, mass merchandisers, club stores, dollar stores, and military outlets.” It’s the same week we find ourselves in right now, just one full year later.
Levonorgestrel also goes by the name Plan B and the morning-after pill. The drug gained FDA approval in the United States in 1998, however, it was unable to be sold over-the-counter at that time. It wasn’t until August 2006 that it finally became widely accessible to women without a prescription.
When taken properly, women who have engaged in unprotected or compromised sex can ingest the drug to abort fetuses shortly after conception. To put this reality into context, one in four women in the United States will have an abortion sometime during their lives. Specific to the week following New Year’s eve, 41,000 extra levonorgestrel pills were sold, according to the study.
Pro-life advocates like myself see 41,000 lives abruptly and sadly ended in seven days. Compare that number to the 22,000+ Israeli and Palestinian lives abruptly and sadly ended by Hamas between October 7, 2023 and December 25, 2023 in the Israeli-Hamas war (approximately 11 weeks). Why is one routine and the other labeled an “act of terror?”
The Eureka study was based on an increase in sales of the “emergency contraception” per 1000 women aged 15–44. What they found captures a societal attitude among women that is dragging humanity in a devastating direction, frivolous and “me-focused” at best.
Sales of the drug jumped 10 percent in the week after New Year’s Eve. Pro-abortion advocates would justify this increase, especially in the wake of the recent overturning of Roe v. Wade. In a society accustomed to immediacy, some decisions warrant less of it, not more, in my opinion. Those would be the ones when one of the lives of the two involved hangs in the balance.
A rise in alcohol usage and the pervasive mentality that “girls just want to have fun” are unequivocally associated with this increase. They are the common threads and convenient excuses adults use to wipe away irresponsible behavior, followed by the layering of one bad decision onto another. Similar, but somewhat smaller increases were also noted around other holidays, including Valentine’s Day, Independence Day and St. Patrick’s Day. People who seek permission to be reckless shouldn’t be given full jurisdiction over the fate of the innocent life resulting. The price is too high for the one without a voice.
To that same end, it could also cost the safety and lives of the actual women involved. With the increase of irresponsible carousing comes an increase in sexual violence towards women. Undoubtedly, excessive alcohol consumption blurs reality, making the possibility of sexual violence occuring in the heat of passion, seemingly nonexistent.
Until it happens to them, that is. Women don’t want to have to learn that lesson the hard way.
However, the times we live in make it less safe than ever to throw caution to the wind only for it to turn out badly. Women need to be vigilant daily but especially around holidays that could impede their judgment due to the activities involved. Criminals, opportunists, and rapists don’t take off for the holidays. Neither should women, be it their safety, sense or clothes.
And let’s not forget the factor of sexually transmitted disease when unprotected sex is had. Being irresponsible may result in a fun time but it also could result in a great deal more than originally bargained for. Pushing a narrative among women that true empowerment comes from being able to do anything they want does the exact opposite. It is actually disempowering.
It does not account for extenuating circumstances or unexpected realities. Nor does it take into account the differences between the sexes. It isn’t progressive, as is being taught by mainstream culture and pro-abortion advocates. It’s simply naive.
The real score continuously silenced by current-day society is that “harm’s way” normally occurs when it finds its way through the crack of an open door. It’s never truly expected nor invited, but that doesn’t mean it won’t show up to never let you forget it.
In other words, having fun doesn’t come with a license to be irresponsible. As shown by the Eureka study, circumstances can arise that can be life altering, leading to results that are tragic on many levels–life experiences women would do better to live without.
