Abortion/ban

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Abortion bans remain in effect in many parts of the world, despite growing support for "pro-choice" policies. The Supreme Court's recent removal of abortion as a federally-protected right in the US has resulted in many states immediately reverting to pre-existing bans, while others are imposing new bans now that they are allowed to do so.

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• /effectiveness: one of the central tenets of the pro-life position (often unstated) is that the best way to reduce abortions is to make them illegal. The facts do not support this argument.

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• 2008-12-01 Making Abortion Illegal Reduces the Abortion Rate: This seems to be arguing that the Guttmacher Institute is ideologically biased and therefore any claims they make about abortion bans not affecting abortion rates are thereby not to be trusted. Aside from the dubiousness of the premise, the fact remains that the data supporting the lack of effectiveness comes from many quarters; Guttmacher is basing their conclusions on that data, and is not the only source for it.