It's the typical bad headline from the mainstream media. In reporting on new study by the Guttmacher Institute -- an organization that tracks reproductive health issues -- ABC News offers us "Why Abortions Are Down in America." Except, they don't really tell you why. As I say, typical.
See, the Guttmacher study tells us that "the U.S. abortion rate declined to 19.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, continuing the downward trend that started after the abortion rate peaked at 29.3 in 1981" and that this marks "its lowest level since 1974."
In telling us "Why Abortions Are Down in America," ABC basically says, "Who knows?" Bait and switch, anyone? Still, it gives us a starting point by narrowing things down to three possibilities -- fewer abortion clinics, the success of phony "family planning clinics" run by anti-abortion activists, or better access to birth control methods and emergency contraceptives like Plan B...
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Monday, January 21, 2008
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1 comments:
Good article.
Speaking of contraceptions...what do these radical christians think of vasectomy?
Anybody?
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