Free Birth Control Reduces Abortions (legal, crime, cost, school)

[goldengrain]

"The impact of providing no-cost birth control was far greater than we expected in terms of unintended pregnancies," lead author Jeff Peipert, a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the Washington University School of Medicine, said in a statement.

http://www.livescience.com/23726-bir...-rate.htmlThis little experiment predicts from 41% to 71% fewer abortions would be had, if free birth control wer available.

Numbers are cited that 49% of pregnancies are unplanned and about 43% are aborted.
Unplanned pregnancies cost about $11billion per year, paid for by taxpayers.

[Frank DeForrest]

its not free if my taxes pay for it.

[Marlow]

Duplicate thread. //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...tion-rate.html

[Memphis1979]

Seems to make sense to me.

[goldengrain]

Originally Posted by Marlow

Duplicate thread. //www.city-data.com/forum/polit...tion-rate.html

Thank you. That's where I'm going.

[Harrier]

Abortion stops a beating heart.

[Exaday]

Abortions reduce crime.

"We offer evidence that legalized abortion has contributed significantly to recent crime reductions. Crime began to fall roughly eighteen years after abortion legalization. The five states that allowed abortion in 1970 experienced declines earlier than the rest of the nation, which legalized in 1973 with Roe v. Wade. States with high abortion rates in the 1970s and 1980s experienced greater crime reductions in the 1990s. In high abortion states, only arrests of those born after abortion legalization fall relative to low abortion states. Legalized abortion appears to account for as much as 50 percent of the recent drop in crime."


The Impact of Legalized Abortion on Crime by John Donohue, Steven Levitt :: SSRN

[Gtownoe]

Seems like a pretty fair statement to me. Even if there's a duplicate thread (haven't been posting in a while), its a good topic. There's issues in this country that need to be resolved.