summarizing the current post-Dobbs situation: a) abortions are up b) rape/incest pregnancies carried to term also up c) infant and maternal mortality up making everything worse for everyone, that's the Conservative Promise apnews.com/article/abor...
A new report shows the number of monthly abortions in the U.S. went up slightly in the first three months of 2024 compared with before the Supreme Court overturned Roe V.
"He [Conservative, White Male] doesn't think that outlawing abortions will people start having them less. What wants, is to throw women in jail for getting them." - Innuendo Studios - The Alt-Right Playbook: I Hate Mondays
and more than likely, though it will take time for statistics to emerge, d) intimate partner violence up
You know how abstinence only sex Ed famously does not work and actually increases the rate of teen pregnancies? What if we took that same approach in every other aspect of people's lives
*Insert George Carlin bit about abortions and conservatives here*
It seems we needed to be reminded why Roe came about in the first place.
The estimates of abortion numbers BEFORE Roe were usually about 1,000,000 a year. More than there are now, from a smaller population. And they came down a LOT when Roe was the law. 1963:
How pro-life of them.
But conservatives can look at the bright side: at least some women were made to suffer
Conservatism isn't a philosophy so much as a laundry list of pretexts to be an asshole.
It's the same here in the UK with Conservatives. 14 years in power, and everything is broken. Now centrists are in charge and are starting to repair things. But it takes longer to repair stuff than it does to break it. Conservatives only look after themselves, wherever in the world they are.