Contraception Matters

Daily Kos comes through again with this summary:

The Guttmacher Institute and the World Health Organization have done a major new study of abortion patterns throughout the world. The broad lesson is that abortion rates are not much affected by the legality or illegality of the procedure. Instead, the availability of contraception has a greater effect. While the legality of abortion does not have a great affect on its frequency, legality does increase safety enormously.

So sorry religious fanatics but it's once again been shown that your meddling with public policy is a disaster. Abstinence-only programs don't work and neither does restricting abortions. Please, help us reduce massive suffering by truly educating the world about the value of contraception! Should that fail, then abortion should be available as a last resort to ANYONE who wants it. Anything else is immoral.