"If you want to decrease abortion, why not support better sex education, contraceptive access, and healthcare access instead of trying to outlaw abortion? These methods reduce abortions, while making abortion illegal doesn't."
There are several facets to our answer. 🧵1/5
There are several facets to our answer. 🧵1/5
We do support comprehensive sex education and better access to contraception. Better to prevent unintended pregnancy than have to grapple with abortion or unintended birth. 2/5
That said, outlawing abortion dramatically reduces abortion. Even more mild restrictions (limits on taxpayer funding, parental notification laws) significantly reduce abortion. We link to decades of research demonstrating as much in this thread:
https://twitter.com/secularprolife/status/13918439976398438423/5
Also, abortion restrictions correlate with increased contraceptive use. When abortion isn't readily available as a back up option, people take more precautions to avoid pregnancy in the first place. Click here to see a thread of studies:
https://twitter.com/secularprolife/status/14334224267807170564/5
Finally, in addition to these practical considerations, we also fight to make abortion illegal on principle. Abortion kills humans. We want to create a society that offers at least the minimum legal protection of not letting them be unjustly killed. 5/5
Addendum: Even internationally, when you control for other variables, making abortion illegal reduces abortions. We go into much more detail, with citations, here:
https://twitter.com/secularprolife/status/1426225942163345408
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