On abortion, conservatives preaching the model of utter failure

28 Feb in human rights, civil rights, Democrats, feminism, health, Plan B, politics, progressive values, reproductive rights, Republicans, Supreme Court, Abortion, CDATA, Death, Demographics, Demography, Ethics, Health, Health, Infant mortality, Labor, Labor, Medicine, Obstetrics, Population, Pro-choice, Social Issues, Social Issues, XML

Yesterday, maha noted:

Speaking of South Dakota, I was just wondering if it complied with the Mississippi Correlation. The MC states that where a state’s legislature is obsessed with banning abortions, that state will have a higher than average infant mortality rate.

Yep. It does.

That reminds me of something that was going around just after the election....

So what is it about these political leaders with failed policies and their determination to foist their failures on others?

Are higher teen birth rates really something to emulate?

Are higher infant mortality rates something to expand nationwide?

It really amazes me sometimes how these forced pregnancy types who like to claim a "culture of life" fail to recognize just how ineffective and destructive and deadly their policies are. They oppose access to birth control, the mere existence of Plan B emergency birth control and even education of children as to how babies are born and how to protect themselves. And then they turn around and scream about women, and teenaged girls, aborting their pregnancies. They campaign to strip women of their Constitutional rights as soon as a man penetrates them. They oppose healthcare measures to protect a pregnant woman's life and health.

What's up with that? Their "culture of life" promotes death.

And now, with the Roberts-Scalito-Thomas court, they want to push this model of death and failure onto the rest of the country. Because it's not enough that they live their own lives according to their beliefs and dogma, but that everyone else must abide by their own peculiar brand of "morality," too.

And on the other side? We get "pro-choice" bloggers fighting back by attacking ... NARAL and Planned Parenthood?

Now what's up with that?

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Matsu's picture

Great Reminder

The attitude toward women is reflected in these statistics. Keep 'em pregnant and barefoot. Hey, MG! What's the correlation of poverty (barefoot) and teen pregnancy between the red and blue states?

media girl's picture

I don't know

...but if you have some info on this, it sounds like a good blog post topic! [wink-wink, nudge-nudge, say no more, eh?]

Wally's picture

Basic Premise is Flawed

This chart says a couple of things pretty clearly, but it doesn't say what our bloghost claims.

Given that abortion is legal in all 50 states:

It says a LOT more about how poverty limits access to abortion than it does about local legislative leanings.

And, it says a lot about how young women in liberal states are much more likely to abort.

If SD were somewhere in the top ten, I might be more inclined to agree with the post. But it's not, it's in the bottom half.

media girl's picture

What exactly did I claim?

I don't see anything in that chart about poverty.

And your assertion that the chart says that liberal women abort more is without merit or support. The teen pregnancy numbers are irrespective of whether the pregnancies are carried to term. All the chart says is what the teen pregancy rate is, as indicated clearly in the chart.

So your basic comment is flawed, Wally.

Marisacat's picture

Wally Wally Wally Wally Wally...

ya read it wrong, hon.... But I figured you'd recognise your name.

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