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The 2012-May 2022 political platform of the Libertarian Party stated, "Recognizing that abortion is a sensitive issue and that people can hold good-faith views on all sides, we believe that government should be kept out of the matter, leaving the question to each person for their conscientious consideration." [20]
The cumulative impact of legalized abortion on crime is roughly 45%, accounting for a very substantial portion of the roughly 50–55% overall decline from the peak of crime in the early 1990s." Levitt discussed this paper and the background and history of the original paper (including its criticisms) in an episode of the Freakonomics podcast.
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall stated that Alabama law would allow the state to prosecute those who helped organize or finance trips by Alabamians to other states in order to receive abortions, even if abortion were legal in those states. In July 2023, two abortion advocacy groups filed lawsuits seeking to prevent such prosecutions.
Updated April 9, 2024 at 5:33 PM. PHOENIX — The Arizona Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that a 160-year-old near-total abortion ban still on the books in the state is enforceable, a bombshell ...
Almost 25% of women will have had an abortion by age 45, with 20% of 30 year olds having had one. [24] In 2019, 60% of women who had abortions were already mothers, and 50% already had two or more children. [25] [26] Increased access to birth control has been statistically linked to reductions in the abortion rate.
The philosophical arguments in the abortion debate are deontological or rights -based. The view that all or almost all abortion should be illegal generally rests on the claims that (1) the existence and moral right to life of human beings (human organisms) begins at or near conception- fertilization; that (2) induced abortion is the deliberate ...
Emma Gray. Copy Editor: Kate Auletta. Powered by. Erin, 30, is a successful sales executive, mother and wife. But 10 years ago, she was a bruised, frightened college student who’d just been raped at a party and discovered she was pregnant. A decade later, Erin still struggles to talk about the rape, and thinks about the abortion daily.
The Florida Supreme Court paved the way for a 6-week abortion ban, while allowing an amendment that would enshrine abortion protections in the state constitution to appear on the November ballot.