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The end game of banning abortion, by the statistics

Dan Savage examines the new statistics from Guttmacher Institute showing that banning abortion doesn’t reduce the number of abortions, and draws several inescapable conclusions: Banning abortion kills women. Making contraceptives readily available reduces abortions and saves the lives of women.  He concludes that banning abortions, then, is an attempt to punish women for having sex.

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Erich Vieth is an iconoclastic attorney, musician and writer living in the Shaw neighborhood of St. Louis, Missouri. He and his wife Anne Jay have two daughters, aged 9 and 11.

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  1. Dan Klarmann says:

    Duh. It won’t change the minds of opponents. Most of the positions the majority on this site oppose are based on innumeracy. Positions based on not understanding the math.

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