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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAbortion rates plummet with free birth control
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2012/10/04/abortion.rates.plummet.with.free.birth.controlProviding birth control to women at no cost substantially reduced unplanned pregnancies and cut abortion rates by 62 percent to 78 percent over the national rate, a new study shows. The research, by investigators at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, appears online Oct. 4 in Obstetrics & Gynecology.
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Arkansas Granny
(31,518 posts)Who could have imagined that would happen?
undeterred
(34,658 posts)Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)of course science has a liberal slant to it
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)and then women have abortions. Told this by a Fundie. When I told him I used BD, had "only" 2 kids, and never had abortion, he said I was "rare" and very, very lucky. I told him it must run the in the family because my Mom only had me and no abortions either.
He never anwered me after that.
MH1
(17,600 posts)the study shows that abortion is reduced MUCH MORE than the researchers expected.
Now most of us would say, hell if it lowers it at all it's a good thing, so what's the discussion about? But accountants and policy wonks like actual numbers. And the news in this report is that the numbers are much more striking than expected.
Brickbat
(19,339 posts)Hydra
(14,459 posts)And the fact that it leads to negative population growth, which we REALLY need...but is incompatible with capitalism, so it's a no-no.
Crazy, isn't it?