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Interesting opinion piece.
Who’s driving high abortion rates? It’s the religious right | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
This article inforces what I have been saying all along. Availablity ,financial accessibility , and safety improvements to contraception (especially long term forms) are a huge key in greatly reducing abortion rates. Similar plans for long term contraception for men would make that number drop even further.
Here is the fact that everyone debating abortion should know: there is no association between its legality and its incidence. In other words, banning abortion does not stop the practice; it merely makes it more dangerous.
The abortion debate is presented as a conflict between the rights of foetuses and the rights of women. Enhance one, both sides sometimes appear to agree, and you suppress the other. But once you grasp the fact that legalising women’s reproductive rights does not raise the incidence of abortions, only one issue remains to be debated: should they be legal and safe or illegal and dangerous? Hmm … tough question.
There might be no causal relationship between reproductive choice and the incidence of abortion, but there is a strong correlation: an inverse one. As the Lancet’s most recent survey of global rates and trends notes: “The abortion rate was lower ... where more women live under liberal abortion laws.”
Who’s driving high abortion rates? It’s the religious right | George Monbiot | Opinion | The Guardian
This article inforces what I have been saying all along. Availablity ,financial accessibility , and safety improvements to contraception (especially long term forms) are a huge key in greatly reducing abortion rates. Similar plans for long term contraception for men would make that number drop even further.