February 4, 2014

Pro-Life Movement Victorious at Curbing Abortions

By Janice Shaw Crouse
In their most recent report, released Monday, the Guttmacher Institute finds that U.S. abortion rates are at their lowest levels since 1973. They claim there is "no evidence that the decline was linked to a drop in the number of abortion providers." We are to assume, I suppose, that, incredibly, everyone has become much more effective users of birth control and, besides, the economic recession made couples delay having children. Excuse me! If the couples wanted the child, they would not have considered an abortion anyway. I don't think those assertions pass the laugh test. States have enacted more abortion restrictions in the past three years than in the entire previous decade combined, and there has been a drop in the number of abortion providers, but those changes had absolutely no effect on abortion rates? I wonder why, then, they quote Elizabeth Nash, issues manager at Guttmacher, who says the restrictions are making it harder for women to access abortions and equally hard for...(Read Full Article)