A blog by Nicholas Solter about politics and everything else
Posted in Barack Obama, Choice, Election 2008, John McCain, Politics on Oct 7th, 2008
Since my last post about Joining the Obama Campaign I’ve gone into the local Obama campaign office about once a week to volunteer. Although I tried at first to convince the volunteer coordinators that I should do data entry, they’ve mostly had me making phone calls. The way it works is that I get a […]
Posted in Choice on Nov 16th, 2007
In Nicaragua, a woman cannot legally terminate a pregnancy, even to save her own life. The result? Women die from treatable conditions like ectopic pregnancies. I like to think this isn’t the result hoped for by the pro-life movement in the US.
A new study on abortion rates has some interesting data :
Abortion rates are not correlated with legality of abortion. That is, the rates of abortion are approximately the same in countries where it is illegal and those where it is legal.
Abortions are generally safe in countries where it is legal, and generally unsafe where […]