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

For the most part a lot of the pro-life people I encounter will say they are for abortion exceptions if the pregnant person's life is in danger. For fetal anomalies though far fewer seem to be for these

They run against the common behavior of large institutions, which work to perpetuate themselves and to increase the scope and the degree of their power. Who would have thought it? Perhaps someday the Court

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,

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

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 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

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

Some Pew opinion polling data on overall US feelings about when abortion should be legal or illegal. It varies substantially by gestational progress. The breakeven point (where roughly-ish 50% oppose abortion,

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

If it is the woman’s right to choose – and hers alone – as to whether to deliver a baby or abort a fetus, then why isn’t it a man’s right to choose – and his alone – whether or not to support the child,

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

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

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

One thing that we should acknowledge is the reality that, no matter how good or bad you think that a Supreme Court ruling is, it's a precarious way to influence and maintain change. This is especially

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

Have to admit that I can no longer engage in the socially engineered contrived reality anymore. I personally do believe that abortion is a woman's choice, but I can remember when young single women didn't

In coming days, I may have more substantive thoughts on the issues raised by the likely (though still by no means certain) overruling of Roe v. Wade. Here, however, some thoughts on the possible identity

Naturalism isn't called a religion because we think of a religion as involving the supernatural. But religion and naturalism both are words used to describe a belief system or world view. Both have the

First and foremost, whoever leaked the preliminary majority ruling should be punished. To my knowledge this has not happened before in American history. More importantly, people really have to understand