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uh... let's talk about actual abortion rates because the there's an interesting
numbers over the last three decades the abortion rate for women in their
twenties
has dropped significantly why has it dropped lewis
contraception
exactly access to contraception between nineteen ninety two thousand a almost
twenty years
pregnancy an abortion rates for women in their twenties drop dramatically
according to a new study that was uh... released today pregnancy rates fell by
eighteen percent an abortion rates dropped by a third
one of the biggest influencing factors here was of course contraceptive use
which has increased over time
of course the religious right would argued that contraceptive use is in and
of itself
eight type
of abortion
that would be rejected by the majority of the medical community helis
uh... so
it's interesting because
it's not that clear would think
the religious right would want to have less abortions
if it means that it's more contraception that's being used it doesn't seem to
care about it that much all of a sudden because they also want to fight women's
access to contraception and coverage of contraception their health insurance
because it is a conflict of interest state is and it
let's leptin as anybody surprise that most women would rather use
contraception and undergo surgical procedure
i mean was shocking lewis for a shocking that people with women would prefer that
here are the same time there has been uh... improvements and uh... advances in
sex education
over the past two decades too and i'm sure
that that's played a role in this as well but there's also something the
republicans are trying to cooperate with they want uh... abstinence only sex
education which as we know is not affected
the onset quite the opposite quite the opposite there the numbers ladies and
gentlemen let's take a break face book dot com slash david packard show we are
so close to five thousand fakes face book like that they were only about
thirty away at this point was
let's take a break will be back with play more after this
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