98% of Catholic Women Use Contraception. Really?

Actually this is not quite true as evidenced by the actual report from the Guttenmacher Institute. Guttennacher released a report in April 2011, on findings of a survey regarding use of contraception among women of Christian religions, including Catholics. If you pay attention to the debate over President Obama's ruling on religious organizations providing contraceptive care to employees, you would have heard that 98% of catholic women use contraception other than natural family planning.

This blog post refutes that report and provides insight into just how Guttenmacher came to their conclusion.

Here is a brief summary of how Guttenmaher set up the survey to scew the data.

1) They didn’t count anyone that wasn’t a Catholic woman between the ages of 15-44. Obviously, that eliminates everyone that might be too old or too young to be having sex. But, it also eliminates tens of millions of people who are not too old to be having sex.

2) They didn’t count anyone who was pregnant. Obviously, the vast majority of these people were not using contraception.

3) They didn’t count anyone who just gave birth. Obviously, the vast majority of these people were not using contraception.

4) They didn’t count anyone who hadn’t had sex in the last three months. No, this doesn’t just eliminate ugly people. It eliminates every non-married person who is listening to the Catholic church enough to not have sex outside of marriage. In other words, the most likely group to be listening to the Catholic church about contraception.

5) They didn’t count anyone who was trying to get pregnant, or was indifferent to becoming pregnant. In other words, they eliminated the single most likely group to avoid contraception.

6) They didn’t count anyone who was having sex, trying to avoid pregnancy, but also not using a specific contraception method. I guess this would be the good ol’ “pull-n-pray”—which, incidentally–isn’t as religious as it sounds.

7) Two out of every five women in the survey were so incredibly Catholic that they either attended church services “less than once a month” or “never.” Never?



To summarize:

The study asked a bunch of Catholic women who are both 1) regularly having sex and 2) trying not to get pregnant, whether they’re using contraception. How did you not get 100% on that question? I mean—what are your other options in that situation? Specifically searching out people who are medically sterile? Buying the Cialis mailing list and trying to find guys with ED? Punching dudes in the groin before you hook up?

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