Here is a well-reasoned article which for me helps resolve the disconnect between my dislike of Obamacare and abortion, and my desire to support universal healthcare for everyone:
Universal Healthcare tends to cut the abortion rate..
T.R. Reid states:“Increasing health-care coverage is one of the most powerful tools for reducing the number of abortions – a fact proved by years of experience in other industrialized nations. All the other advanced, free-market democracies provide health-care coverage for everybody. And all of them have lower rates of abortion than does the United States.”
This article is saying that the reason for lower abortion rate than in America in certain countries is because of free access to contraception?
I do not think the article is taking in to consideration cultural aspects. Japan has a very traditional society when it comes to family, so abortion is likely to be lower than in solemn countries where the family is held in such esteem. Also according to wikipedia, ‘
The official Japanese government statistics on abortion however can not be considered as very accurate since physicians tend to underreport the number of abortions they perform as a way of avoiding income tax payments (Coleman 1991) and because of social pressures to protect women’s confidentiality, especially that of young women who are junior high or high school students.’
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Japan
Sweden had the same abortion rate as America in 2009 at 20.8:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abortion_in_Sweden
Some of the UN data in the article you linked is inaccurate.
The study claims the abortion rate is lower in
Show me the evidence, the studies that show that more contraception reduces abortion?
Study by Centers for Disease Control data, shows a clear link between increase in STDs and birth control:
issues4life.org/pdfs/20101119sexedadvocatesignoretherelationshipbetweenbirthcontrolabortionandstds.pdf
If contraception increases sexual activity that means more people are having sex and that means that more people will get pregnant because contraception is far from full proof, it has failure rates,
15% for condoms, 8% for the birth control pill.
Between 1995 and 2001 in
Sweden abortion rate fore teens grew 32% in a time when oral contraceptions, cheap condoms, and over the counter emergency contraception:
10 year study in Spain reported to have found:
[C]ontraception use increased by about 60%, the abortion rate doubled. In other words, even with an increase in contraception use, there weren’t fewer unwanted pregnancies, there were more.
Spain has a single-payer health care system.
National Review
reported that ‘
out of 23 studies on the effects of increased access to ECs, not one study could show a reduction in unintended pregnancies or abortions.’
Research arm of Planned Parenthood the
Guttmacher Institute showed a simultaneous increase in contraception use and teen abortion rate in the US, Denmark, Cuba, Singapore, the Netherlands, and South Korea.
Guttmacher says
55%-60% of women getting an abortion are on contraception.
Sex ed program in Scotland over three years, scientists discovered it did not delay intercourse improve use of contraceptives or reduce pregnancies or abortions. The government decided to continue the program because students reported feeling less regret about the first time they slept with their most recent partner.
bmj.com/content/334/7585/133.full
M. Henderson, et al., “Impact of a Theoretically Based Sex Education Programme (SHARE) Delivered by Teachers on NHS Registered Conceptions and Terminations: Final Results of Cluster Randomised Trial,” British Medical Journal (November 21, 2006), 4.
bmj.com/content/334/7585/133.full
In England in 1999 the government put 15 million pounds in to sex education, Students where offered condoms, morning after pills, while having ‘safe sex education’ in schools. In March 2004 they found that STD rates had gone up 64%, teens pregnancies where also up, some areas experience 34% overall leap. The greatest increases where in areas where the program had been implemented.
telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1456789/Teen-pregnancies-increase-after-sex-education-classes.html
Britain has National health service.
A study showed that 3 our of 4 college men did not use condoms, despite the fact that over 80% had received sex education.
Richard Crosby, et al., “Condom Use Errors and Problems Among College Men,” Sexually Transmitted Diseases 29 (2002), 552–57.
tiny.cc/49np5
kinseyinstitute.org/publications/PDF/STDSep2002.pdf
Planned Parenthood’s Frederick S. Jaffe, in Abortion Politics, says ‘…
even if everyone were to practice contraception, and use the most effective medically prescribed methods, there would still be a very large number of unwanted pregnancies.’
1995 Alfred Kinsey said, ‘
At the risk of being repetitious, I would remind the group that we have found the highest frequency of induced abortions in the groups which, in general, most frequently uses contraception.’
British Abortionist Judith Bury, Brook Advisory Centres, 1981: ‘…
women… have come to request [abortions] when contraception fails. There is overwhelming evidence that, contrary to what you might expect, the provision [availability] of contraception leads to an increase in the abortion rate.’
Abortionist and international contraception promoter Malcolm Potts who was former director of Planned Parenthood of England, an abortinist and international promoter of contraception said in 1976 and apparently as early as 1973) quoted in ‘Sex and Social Engineering’ by Valerie Riches, ‘
As people turn to contraception, there will be a rise, not a fall, in the abortion rate…’
In Abortion, he said, ‘…
those who use contraception are more likely than those who do not to resort to induced abortion…’
