Source: The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation from the University of Washington.
Link to study:
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/langlo/article/PIIS2214-109X(24)00560-6/fulltext
Australia and New Zealand having a higher percentage than West Asia and North America is not what I was expecting. So much for the idea that banning abortion kills women.
Sorry for the non-English language. The Vatican should not be okay with this.
A decade ago, this type of legislation was considered so extreme that not even the far-left was willing to support something like this. If trends get worse, I fear that the debate will eventually spread to legalizing infanticide.
In the 1930's, birth control activists insisted that legalizing contraception would not legalize abortion. After it was eventually legalized, they insisted that elective late term abortion would not be legalized. Many states have been heading in the wrong direction since then. Now I am being told that legislation like this won't lead to infanticide being normalized.
When genetic genealogy was invented in 2017, mothers who murdered their newborns decades earlier were finally brought to justice. At the time, I noticed that support for incarcerating these women was unanimous. However, since the pandemic, I have been noticing that when a mother is accused of murdering her newborn, people with either make excuses for her or insist that she not be arrested. If this rhetoric is considered acceptable to Catholics, we run the risk of normalizing infanticide. For that reason, I support excommunicating any politician that votes in favor of elective abortion beyond viability.
Pope Leo needs to be courageous and excommunicate her.
Many pro-choicers will deny that they hate children on the grounds that they have children themselves. In the early 20th century, many men who were against women voting denied being misogynistic on the ground that were married and had children. Today, it is easy to dismiss such clown talk as copium, but back then it wasn't. If you don't think women have the right to vote, you have subconscious hatred for all women.
At the same time, people act like pro-choicers don't have an underlying hatred for children for denying them rights in the womb. They might respect their own children as individuals, but as a demographic they don't love children. If you don't think all children have the right to be protected by their mother, you have a subconscious hatred for all children, even if you refuse to admit it.
Comments on Facebook were celebrating this. I am appalled.
This person also condemned me for not caring for children after they are born. Talk about a lack of self-awareness.
I understand that this text is hard to read, but I could not find a line chart. Furthermore, I had to pirate the study in order to access this data.
Link:
The trend for both boys and girls is clear. From 1940 to 1970, the infanticide rate was stable from 3-5 per 100,000 births. After the 1970's infanticide rates increased to 6-8 per 100,000 births.
The study does not go beyond 2005, but the infanticide rate stayed the same until 2020. I could not find data for after the Dobbs decision, so I'll have to wait on that.
When somebody justifies a murdered newborn on the ground that abortion is not accessible, show them these charts.
I did not vote for Trump.