Via Vanity Press, Cristina Page of the Huffington Post:
It's been a week since The Lancet published the comprehensive Guttmacher Institute study which found that bans on abortion fail to reduce abortion rates. The researchers of the study also discovered that countries where abortion is legal (and the emphasis is on prevention rather than prosecution) experience the most dramatic declines in abortion.
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You'd think genuine pro-lifers would be interested in knowing what results in low abortion rates. The fact that the only reaction that has come from the pro-life establishment is one of disbelief, cynicism and silence indicates that's not the case. Indeed, as we've known for a while, this whole ugly conflict isn't really even about abortion. For the anti-abortionists, the goal is to re-introduce the preventable consequences to sex as a way to scare people into abstinence. If that isn't the point, then why aren't National Right to Life staffers on a plane right now heading to the Netherlands to learn how that country managed to achieve the lowest abortion rates on earth? (Because it's free birth control, comprehensive sex ed, and a universal acceptance of sex for pleasure that did it. All solutions they appear to oppose more than abortion.)
3 comments:
They're anti-sex. You can't talk about birth control.
I've said it for decades: Planned Parenthood almost certainly prevents more abortions than all anti-choice organizations combined... by preventing unwanted pregnancies. (Full disclosure: years ago, I did some computer work for the local Planned Parenthood.)
Sorghum Crow, it's not just that they're anti-sex: they're anti-women as well. Their crusade (I think the term may be appropriate) is aimed at keeping women "in their place" at least as much as at preventing abortions. They don't want to acknowledge the results of this research because it might upset their fragile basis for belief in things that aren't true... and deny them control of people they have no business controlling.
Think The Handmaid's Tale writ large...
They are truly anti-women. It is the fearful male not knowing how to hold on to his presumed position of dominance but by the suppression of women. How dare we say no to the all-mighty sperm?
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