The chief lesson of a new report is that making abortion illegal or tough to salvage doesn’t end abortion,it just makes it less safeWant to lower the abortion rate and prevent maternal deaths worldwide? Support pro-choice policies. That’s the takeaway from a new report from the Guttmacher Institute, which looks at abortion around the world.
The chief lesson of the report is one pro-choice advocates possess known for years: that making abortion illegal or tough to salvage doesn’t end abortion, or it just makes it less safe. And opposition to abortion tends to near along with opposition to contraception and women’s rights more broadly – and the limited contraception access that results means a higher abortion rate.
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Source: guardian.co.uk