In 1957, Time Magazine seemed to gush with the excitement of a junior high student: “Some of the most hush-hush medical research has been pursued in dozens of laboratories in the effort to find a contraceptive pill” <www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,%20809446,00.html?promoid=googlep>.
According to Planned Parenthood, the “pill” is now the most widely used of various contraceptive methods <www.guttmacher.org/pubs/fb_%20contr_use.html> (Note: The “pill” is known to work in an abortifacient manner.). In an age of increased awareness about the foods we consume, people seem to be relatively unconcerned about ingesting chemicals and placing foreign objects on or in their bodies to "protect" themselves against their natural fertility.
While contraceptives are supposedly a panacea for "unwanted pregnancies," the CDC reports that one of every three pregnancies ends in an induced abortion <www.cdc.gov/nchs/releases>.
There are now 56 times more new STD infections each year, than there were overall STD infections in 1957:
- As per the Centers for Disease Control, 340,687 cases of STDs were reported by state health departments in 1957 <http://wonder.cdc.gov/wonder/STD/OSTD3202/Table_1.html>.
- Currently, “The CDC estimates that 19 million new [STD] infections occur each year, almost half of them among young people ages 15 to 24”<www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/std/std.asp>.
In the past half century, the rate of forcible rape of women has tripled:
- In 1960, there were 17,190 forcible rapes of women (9.6 per 100,000 people) <www.disastercenter.com/crime/uscrime.htm>.
- The FBI now reports 92,455 annual forcible rapes of women (30.9 per 100,000 people) <www.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2006/data/table_01.html>.
Over the past half century, Americans have become less likely to marry. Of those fewer who do marry, they are more likely to divorce:
- In 1957, there was a marriage rate of 8.9 per 1000 people <http://thecommunityguide.org/nchs/data/series/sr_21/sr21_010acc.pdf> and a divorce rate of 2.2 per 1000 people <www.divorcereform.org/03statab.html>.
- Currently, there is a marriage rate of 7.4 per 1000 people and a divorce rate of 3.6 per 1000 people <www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr56/nvsr56_01.pdf>.
