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Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by bdamm on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:07PM (#20965965)
Globally? In the United States, this is not true[1]. Anti-choicers can claim whatever they want but we still shouldn't be repeating false data.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_statistics_in_the_Uni...

Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by tathougies on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:17PM (#20966060)
From your own link... from 1978 to 1997, there were more than a million abortions each year.

But... now that we know abortion clinics only murder a few hundred thousand, that makes them like twice as good as they used to be. That's how this works, right?

Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by bdamm on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:32PM (#20966187)
Looking at the data with compassion, I would say that access to abortion didn't result in more abortions. In fact, the opposite occurred; access to abortions appears to have reduced the abortion rate over the long term. So if you are truly pro-life, then you would want abortion to be very easy to access; this will save (prevent the "murder" as you say) babies by the millions. Obviously it isn't access alone, though, probably the real cause is that increased access to abortion comes with increased sex education and access to birth control for women, which in turn lowers the rate of unexpected pregnancies, which in turn lowers the rate of abortions. Now if only we could all agree on improving sex ed!
Re:Facebook removed a fact-check on anti-abortion video afte... by rand4321 on Friday September 13, 2019 @05:01PM (#20966516)
By that logic we should kill poor people who may go on to have abortions