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Blog - Amplify your voice

by:  Julia
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 11:40:00 PM EDT

Now, I love baking and cupcakes just as much as the next person, but is this really the best way to reduce abortion rates?

Instead, why not spend all that time and labor on, you know, passing proactive educational policies to prevent unintended pregnancies in the first place? Or reducing sexual violence rates? Or, perhaps, increasing social service funding to low-income families with children?

I'm just saying.

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Comments
Yeah, I completely agree. But that would mean people are having sex for reasons other than procreation and that influences a lot of anti-choice protestors.
# Posted By  stephycupcakes | 10/22/09 09:36 AM | Report | Reply
Great post! I loved this.
# Posted By  vanessaaishacoleman | 10/22/09 08:53 PM | Report | Reply
Waste of some great cupcakes.
# Posted By shadowvictorian | 10/22/09 10:01 PM | Report | Reply
Abortion rates in countries around the world in which abortion is illegal are the same as other nations in which abortions are legal. While abortion remains legal, abortion rates have fallen for more than a decade in the United States overall, but there have actually been increases in abortion rates among poor women for the same reasons as above. More women have achieved access to family planning services as a function of their personal wealth, but current US public policy—including a failure to fund Title X services sufficiently—does not provide the means for prevention for women with little to no income. I will do anything even if it means giving my guaranteed loans just to lower the abortion rates.
# Posted By TrentL | 10/23/09 04:34 AM | Report | Reply