Uruguay Senate Approves First-Trimester Abortions

[Warpy]

1. Good for Uruguay!

Brazil has managed to lower the poor's birthrate by one novel approach: they've supplied power to the slums so that people now can get TVs to watch. The telenovelas have featured women from all sorts of walks of life, the most successful of them having limited families to three or fewer children. The message is sinking in for women in the slums, and they're much more loath to be baby machines.

Add to this government supported birth control and you have a true revolution going on.

I suppose decriminialized early abortion will eventually be a part of the package. For now, electricity allowing people to watch TV dramas has made an immense impact.

(Read all about it in The Economist last year if you want to find the story)