Researcher says pro-life efforts paying dividends
J Young
I've always felt that the struggle was one worth even one baby's life, but
20% reduction in all abortions?! Saints be praised!
http://www.onenewsnow.com/2007/03/researcher_says_prolife_effort.php
A social scientist at the University of Alabama says pro-life laws at the
state level are effectively reducing the number of abortions nationwide
among both teens and adults. But his research into the effectiveness of such
legislation, he contends, has been virtually ignored by the mainstream
media.
University of Alabama professor Michael New says the 20 percent decline in
abortions across the U.S. since 1990 is largely the result of progress the
pro-life movement has made in enacting pro-life legislation at the state
level. Speaking recently at the Family Research Council in Washington, DC,
Dr. New discussed his research into the impact that state-level pro-life
legislation and advertising have had on abortion rates.
New says he hopes his research will encourage pro-lifers to tout their
achievements.
"Superficially a lot of people don't think the pro-life movement has really
been very effective because 34 years later we still have not overturned Roe
v. Wade," he points out, referring to the 1973 landmark decision that
legalized abortion on demand in America. "But we have made a lot of very
good incremental gains." And that, he adds, is something that pro-lifers
"should be very proud of and . should highlight and should trumpet."
Dr. New says although pro-life parental consent laws often yield success,
most researchers would agree that restrictions on public funding are the
most effective means of reducing abortion rates. And one of the ways to see
that such restrictions are enacted is by electing pro-life advocates to
office, he says.
"I also think [pro-lifers] should make the case that voting for a pro-life
candidate does result in some solid protections for the unborn," New offers.
"It's not wasting your vote; good things will come out of that vote and out
of electing that candidate."
Still, he says, his findings linking state-level pro-life legislation and
advertising with reduced abortion rates are conveniently dismissed by the
New York Times and the Washington Post, noting the latter avoided
referencing his research in a 2005 story on declining abortion rates.
"A reporter talked with me for about 20 minutes, but my comments -- and the
comments of every other pro-lifer -- were removed from the article," he
says, offering his opinion that they were "probably spiked by a senior
person" at the Post.
New says he finds it interesting that abortion advocates "never actually
come out and say legislation doesn't work" in reducing abortions. Instead,
he continues, "they put the emphasis elsewhere -- on contraception, on other
factors -- but they never actually pull the trigger and say . these laws
don't work."
Evidently that is something in which the researcher takes pride. "In some
respects," says New, "I'm kind of flattered by the fact that they don't feel
confident in saying that anymore."
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IAAH
Bullshit. Most (honest) researchers agree that real
education is the most effective means of reducing
abortion rates.
But then, you're against that sort of education - you
don't actually want abortion rates lowered.
Parsifal
> I've always felt that the struggle was one worth even one baby's life, but
> 20% reduction in all abortions?! Saints be praised!
You want to reduce the number of abortions?
How about providing real sexual education to American teenagers?
Funny that the more liberal a country is (especially when it comes to
sexuality), the lower its abortion rate is.
But it's probably too much to ask to your sexually-repressed brain to
understand.
JLS
Beat me to it. I've always marveled at the fact that those most
opposed to abortions are the creators of the problem that they claim
to want to solve.
It is ironic that the anti-sex education/abstenence movement is
responsible for more abortions than any abortion clinic. Talk about
hypocracy. Here, in the US, the anti-abortion movement is fighting the
inoculation of children against HPV - a sexually transmitted virus
that causes cancer. They claim that a few more cases of cancer will
reduce the sexual tendencies of people and therefore reduce the
abortion rate. Besides, cancer is a punishment from God for having
sex.
Personally, I think that the cancer is a punishment from God for
listening to religious nuts, but I could be wrong. Perhaps they are
right. Who was this Jesus guy who preached tolerance of others, that
we should listen to him?
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JohnN
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Perhaps Dr New will publish his research in a quality social science
journal. That will generate more buzz than lecturing to the Family
Research Council and whining that newspapers don't take him seriously.
JohnN
JLS
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> Perhaps Dr New will publish his research in a quality social science
> journal. That will generate more buzz than lecturing to the Family
> Research Council and whining that newspapers don't take him seriously.
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Although anyone who uses "pro-life" to discribe the anti-abortion
movement is so hopelessly biased that their study is suspect. To be
respected, a study needs to be unbiased.
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Ray Fischer
>I've always felt that the struggle was one worth even one baby's life,
You don't care about the lives of children. You freely let children
die every day because it would be too inconvenient to save them.
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BOB
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Good point.
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Lucifer
of us pro-choicers would like that to happen) is to promote proper use
of contraception, through proper Sex-Ed classes.
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and General Purpose Igor
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of Doom
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"Don't worry, I won't bite.......hard"
Robert
wrote:
>The best way to reduce abortion rates (and don't get me wrong, a lot
>of us pro-choicers would like that to happen) is to promote proper use
>of contraception, through proper Sex-Ed classes.
I don't believe there is any pro-choicer's that would not rejoice if
there were no unwanted pregnancies. And sex education is the only way
that it could happen.
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Paul Duca
youngo...@aol.com wrote on 3/21/07 12:16 AM:
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> I've always felt that the struggle was one worth even one baby's life, but
> 20% reduction in all abortions?! Saints be praised!
>
But when will J Yo be paid?
Paul