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Highly restrictive abortion laws do not lead to lower abortion rates, according to a new report from the Guttmacher Institute. Globally, nations that have more restrictive abortion laws, like in Latin American and Africa, also see a higher number of unsafe abortions and deaths because of the unsafe procedures.
Report Finds No Link Between Restrictive Abortion Laws And Lower Abortion Rates
Seeded on Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:30 AM EST
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Despite these findings, the GOP presidential candidates pledged to restrict women’s access to both abortions and contraception during a pro-life presidential forum last night. Frontrunner Mitt Romney, who was not at the forum, has flirted with supporting a “personhood amendment” and has promised to adopt policies that restrict the availability of abortion coverage.
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#1 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 7:31 AM ESTThose of us with a working brain have known this since Row v Wade was first handed down. The fight over abortion is one about control over women, not any concern over kids or women's health. Abortion will ALWAYS EXIST. No matter what laws the reactionary right wants to impose on women, if someone doesn't want to have a child, they won't. The question is, do we want a woman to risk her life to get an abortion? To those who hate the idea of sex as pleasure, the answer will always be yes - they view pregnancy and any subsequent risk as fitting punishment for having sex.
And that is a sad, sick view of the world.
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#2 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 8:15 AM EST
And the saddest part is those policies that are actually proven to lead to fewer abortions, freely available family planning, education, and birth control are *also* being targeted by the same people who are so against abortion.
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For the same reason, jmorris - they believe the consequences of sex are justified punishments. Pregnancy, STDs, or even AIDS, are acceptable to the right as long as it teaches women that enjoying sex is wrong.
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The fight over abortion is one about control over women, not any concern over kids or women's health.
Indeed. Exactly that! :o(
The GOP seems afraid of women and intent on keeping them subservient and without choices.
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It appears many GOTPers must be severely sexually frustrated-of course, if I was married to Santorum, I'd be frustrated too.
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Women have been having abortions since the dawn of time. As long as there are unwanted pregnancies they will continue. I bet a lot of these countries that have restrictive abortion laws also have restrictive contraception laws for along the line of the same reason: Religion telling them life begins at conception, sex is for reproduction only blah blah blah
But that is why we need to make sure things like that "Personhood movement" never gets passed here. It will not stop at abortion, they will go on to the other things they hate like contraception because it's supposedly making women whores since they can go have sex for pleasure only with only a slight fear of pregnancy and all those other boogie men the pro-lifers throw about there in their arguments against it. I'm sure you all heard them. In fact some try to link contraception to causing abortions *sigh*
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#3 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 9:51 AM ESTThis graph is pretty clear to me and completely destroy GOTPers' justification for banning abortion.
I'd like to see someone like Santorum explain away this graph.
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#4 - Fri Jan 20, 2012 4:41 PM ESTI'd like to see someone like Santorum explain away this graph.
I think you would have to wait a long time for that. He would find something to excuse it, or ignore it altogether!
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