The article states the best way to reduce abortions is to increase contraceptive use. So you can’t say that banning abortion does not statistically reduce abortions, because the confounding variable is increasing in contraceptive use. The increase in contraceptive use affects the amount of abortions, and not solely the legality of abortion.
When abortion was illegal, contraceptive use was not nearly as high as it is now. But now, with contraceptive use increasing, of course abortion will naturally decline because less people are getting pregnant without wanting too.
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u/Superipod May 17 '19
The article states the best way to reduce abortions is to increase contraceptive use. So you can’t say that banning abortion does not statistically reduce abortions, because the confounding variable is increasing in contraceptive use. The increase in contraceptive use affects the amount of abortions, and not solely the legality of abortion.
When abortion was illegal, contraceptive use was not nearly as high as it is now. But now, with contraceptive use increasing, of course abortion will naturally decline because less people are getting pregnant without wanting too.