Likewise the number of young women it affects. I’ve been writing about this lately because my state is one of those with current pending legislation to move from notification to consent, and to remove the option of a medical waiver to the law. And how many young women received these waivers last year? 19. of 122. Nineteen. And people wonder why we find it so hard to believe that this isn’t about a foot in the door.
Roxanne, one would also wonder, of course, why the feminists fight so much against it. Especially if it’s “no big surprise” that the notification laws didn’t change anything. Proposition: notification laws weren’t so much about changing abortion rates (as the NYT article alleges) as bringing abortion back in line with mainstream medical procedures.
The study uses abortion statistics from Arizona even though Arizona’s Department of Health says that the increase in abortions in 2004 may not be an actual increase but an increase due to a better way of reporting abortions. Any honest researcher wouldn’t have included Arizona’s statistics. Too bad the NY Times fails to disclose that to its readers.
Proposition: notification laws weren’t so much about changing abortion rates (as the NYT article alleges) as bringing abortion back in line with mainstream medical procedures. Of course the neat thing about anti-choicers and their political representatives is that they are just so prone to peadophilia, so there’s that angle to also be considered.
Mildred, did you know you just posted a link to a page that puts a picture of George Bush next to Adolf Hitler and equates the two? You don’t really believe that do you? That’s the sort of lunacy that loses elections for Democrats. What’s the name of that “law” about the first person in a debate to call his opponent a nazi?
Jimmy M: Godwin’s Law states that as the length of a Usenet discussion gets higher, the probability of someone comparing their opponent to the Nazis approaches one. Now it’s been twisted a bit so that most people call Godwin’s when somebody has brought up the Nazis, and the person who has is assumed to automatically lose the argument.