States with abortions bans have worse social services.
The NYTimes did an analysis showing how the states with abortion bans generally have worse social services, and the worst results on health and well-being for women and children. They have worse child
The Constitution was a peace-treaty.
Dear Jesus-Cultists, The Constitution was a peace-treaty. The framers wrote it so that you could worship your Cannanite war-god and indulge in your ritualized cannibalism and your ritualized drowning,
So now comparisons to European policies are cool since it is about abortion?
If we are going to do international comparisons, my rule is we have to make sure we are comparing apples to apples. Many European countries have robust access to modern contraceptives and abortion medications,
The states themselves will greatly benefit from this diversity of experiment.
Wouldn’t it be great—in a way—if when New York, California, and Illinois keep abortion legal, all the progs moved to those states and then seceded? They’d probably even be pissed that we didn’t start a
Alito gets the history wrong.
There is a lot wrong with the Dobbs ruling, but Alito's opinion also gets the history wrong. During the colonial period and early US, abortion was widespread. Morally they didn't think it was wrong to
Kansas will vote to determine whether it will become a safe haven state for abortion.
Kansas votes on August 2nd on a state constitutional amendment that would explicitly remove the right to an abortion in the state. If polling is accurate this vote should lose handily. Most Kansans are
On the death of Roe V. Wade
To millions of Americans not trained as attorneys or particularly interested in legal reasoning, the only really important element of a Supreme Court decision is the outcome. And the outcome of today’s
The Roe/Casey framework was significantly more representative of the American public than how a post-Roe landscape will look.
Popular discourse on abortion often views Republican voters as being monolithically pro-life, but there is a significant amount of diversity of views among Republicans. 31% of Republicans think abortion
The US has a maternal mortality rate on par with Romania.
This is what happened to Romania's maternal mortality when it legalized abortion. Despite how developed and wealthy the US is we actually have a maternal mortality rate on par with Romania. It is one of
Public opinion shouldn't dictate fundamental rights, but it does have political relevance.
When I hear people talk about returning abortion rights to the states they often make it seem like a lot of the states set to ban or heavily restrict abortion have a populace that feels that way. But the
The reason abortion law is more contentious in America than other western nations is how the question was decided.
For instance, in Europe, the limit is on average somewhere between ten and twenty weeks (outside of obvious exceptions like the life of the mother or whatnot), and was overwhelmingly a result of laws passed
I think pro life people have wasted 50 years to repeal something which might not even reduce abortion by 10%.
32.7 abortions happen for every 1,000 women aged 15-44 in Washington, DC yearly. 29.6 in New York 25.8 in New Jersey 23.4 in Maryland 20.6 in Florida 19.5 in California 19.4 in Nevada 19.2 in Connecticut