Unplanned and unwanted pregnancies are addiction’s dirtiest little secret. When talking about drug abuse and addiction, the connection between drug and alcohol abuse and pregnancy is seldom discussed.
How many women have been too buzzed or too high, to recognize they are letting men go too far? How many men said the words “I just wanna kiss you” then “I just wanna touch you” then “I just wanna love you” and in the end, were too buzzed to be responsible about safe sex? How many women have lied and said “I’m on the pill” when they were not? How many men said “I’ll pull out” and then said “sorry, I couldn’t hold back”, all because they were too buzzed, high and plain out of it? The numbers are probably more shocking and frightening than we can imagine.
Now let’s think about all the unplanned and unwanted pregnancies because of buzzed sexual intercourse? What a sad way for a child to grow up knowing and being reminded he or she was unwanted and unplanned. Now let’s think about how many abortions? How many drug babies? How many foster children? How many addicted mothers, who keep having children? How many men who are addicted, who have STDs and don’t know, nor care that they are getting women pregnant and infected? How many women unknowingly transmit STDs? And they keep on doing it because it’s a well-kept, dirty little secret. Do we blame abortion? Do we blame drugs and alcohol? Do we blame our alcoholic or drug addicted parents?