The 'Right to Life' Will End Up Killing Women

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Kathryn Anne Edwards
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I have a new op-ed out today in Bloomberg about what insights economic research can offer into the consequences of overturning Roe v. Wade. Link below, and sources in the thread.
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bloomberg.com
The ‘Right to Life’ Will End Up Killing Women
Abortions allowed women to escape abusive and even deadly relationships. Now that door is closing, state by state.
9:55 AM · Jul 15, 2022

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2022-07-15/supreme-court-abortion-decision-will-end-up-killing-women

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https://archive.ph/nhiWE

The Supreme Court’s recent decision to overturn Roe v. Wade will affect much more than women’s access to abortions. Decades of economic research demonstrate that, by limiting their power over when and with whom they form families and relationships, it will threaten their livelihoods and even their lives.

Arguably the most telling research has nothing to do with abortion at all. It involves divorce, or more specifically a revolution in family law that occurred nearly 50 years ago, about the time of the original Roe v. Wade decision. Instead of requiring both parties to agree to dissolve a marriage, or one party to prove that the other was at fault, states started allowing either spouse to act unilaterally. This gave women more power to leave unhappy or abusive marriages.

Different states enacted the changes at different times, creating a natural experiment that economists studied to tease out the effects on divorce rates, women’s earnings and retirement security. But the most significant and sobering findings involved mortality: 10% fewer women died at the hands of their spouses and 8% fewer committed suicide (there was no effect on men). Reports of domestic violence against women fell as well.

Abortion also gives women the power to exit relationships. If you have a child with someone, you are bound to them for at least 18 years through custody, visitation and child support. In surveys, 31% of women seeking to terminate pregnancies cited a “partner-related reason,” such as not wanting a child with the man, wanting to end the relationship or believing that the father wouldn’t care for the child. Of those, about 8% cited abuse as the primary reason. Twice that many said the partner had physically abused them within the past six months.

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[Blaukraut]

1. Women's lives don't count

The only life worth a damn to these ghouls is the unborn. A fetus that doesn't have a mind of its own, can be used for political purposes without any consequence (to the ghoul) and sure as hell doesn't cost any of those precious taxpayer dollars those same ghouls have already set their greedy little eyes on.

[Skittles]

4. to be fair

they don't give a DAMN about fetuses either, do you really think they care about poor pregnant women, for example?

[crickets]

2. "Abortion also gives women the power" - power to escape financial dependence on men,

to control their own destinies, and that's the real issue. The physical harm overturning Roe will do is just sweet gravy.

[Skittles]

3. they DO.NOT.CARE.

they don't care who gets hurt as long as THEY ARE IN CONTROL

[lark]

5. They (the American Taliban aka R's) think this is a feature, not a glitch.

according to them we have 1 main value and 1 secondary value -
1 - providing poor children who will not get educated and will work for free
2 - providing sex for them on demand but also with no responsibility for the men, only the women

Other than that we have no value so they can kill us with impunity.

[Thtwudbeme]

6. Yep, and will destroy the economy

I am losing hope for the US.

[dalton99a]

8. Kick

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. The radicalized Republican party seeks absolute rule. Women are collateral damage.

Women who refuse to obey are targets for the American Taliban.