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.
The end game of banning abortion, by the statistics
- Post author:Erich Vieth
- Post published:October 14, 2009
- Post category:Reproductive Rights / Sex
- Post comments:1 Comment
Erich Vieth
Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.
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.