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In reply to the discussion: Hillary Clinton Answer On Abortion Leaves 'Pro-Life' Senator Speechless [View all]Novara
(6,057 posts)Education doesn't reduce abortions. And why do they need to be reduced anyway? That's playing right into the anti-choice's hands. Oooooh, abortion is BAD. No, it's not. It's a legal and safe medical procedure.
Women aren't idiots who need to be counseled, need to have state-sanctioned rape to shame them (transvaginal ultrasounds), need to sit through waiting periods in case they change their minds (that rarely happens), and don't need to be lied to about a false link to breast cancer or a false promise that their medication abortion can be reversed. Women are not children. When a woman has decided she can't bring up a child she has the legal right to terminate.
The procedure is already rare, and getting more rare. See: In the first quarter of 2015, legislatures in all 50 states collectively introduced 332 provisions aimed at restricting abortion services, compared to 335 during the entire 2014 legislative session, according to the Guttmacher Institute.