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Originally posted by Say_hello_for_me
Your post today wasn't really responsive to mine.
Or maybe someone has a better theory on what has changed since 1996?
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Just for the hell of it, I thought I would check the underlying data, rather than just comment on your theory (i.e., that neither increased access to birth control, nor sex education, nor increased engagement in religion, nor anything other than welfare reform had contribued to the "40% drop in abortion rates in the last ten years" that you cite).
Go to google, and put in "abortion rates." Check the first hit -- you'll see that the abortion rate began falling in 1990, well before welfare reform.
Then, check a few more hits. You'll see that the CDC hasn't published data going past 2000, so the 40% decline you cite is not particularly well established. However, several articles indicate that the abortion rate has increased since then.
Can you provide the source on which you relied for the claimed fall, that you claimed began in 1996, and that you claim is causally related to welfare reform?
