Sherry Chandler » More on abortion rates
More on abortion rates
Says Avedon Carol:
…one really big reason why I regard the anti-abortion position as an anti-life position is that bans on abortion actually lead to more unwanted pregnancies and thus more abortions - but these are illegal abortions and therefore more likely to lead to the deaths of the mothers
What spurred her to say that? This post from George Mombiot in The Guardian (via Empire Burlesque)
A study published in the Lancet shows that between 1995 and 2003, the global rate of induced abortions fell from 35 per 1,000 women each year to 29. This period coincides with the rise of the “globalised secular culture” the Pope laments. When the figures are broken down, it becomes clear that, apart from the former Soviet Union, abortion is highest in conservative and religious societies. In largely secular western Europe, the average rate is 12 abortions per 1,000 women. In the more religious southern European countries, the average rate is 18. In the US, where church attendance is still higher, there are 23 abortions for every 1,000 women, the highest level in the rich world.
It still seems to me, as it always has, that the best way to reduce abortions is to teach our children, boy and girl, all we can about birth control methods, to make sure effective birth control is widely available. and to make abortions legal and safe.
Also, I think if everybody would read Avedon’s The Sideshow every day, I could just be quiet on political issues and get on with writing about stuff like poetry and culture.
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