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Region: Right to Life

New Dolgaria wrote:But in the original dilemma, didn't you say that Scenario 1 resulted in less abortions overall?

Yes, as a hypothetical, I noted in the beginning of my response to Phydios the effectiveness in real-life, we did sort of end up getting blurred on which we were talking about.

Roborian wrote:Outside of the hypothetical, where the numbers were just concocted to create the dilemma, bans are going to be effective. Not perfectly effective: no law of any kind is perfectly effective, but a ban on abortion tomorrow would immediately reduce abortion rates more than decades of advocacy, just as, to return to the abolition example, the 13th Amendment did dramatically more to bring slavery to an end than decades of abolitionist rhetoric. The rhetoric is not useless, it is worthwhile, but outside of hypotheticals it will likely never do even a fraction as much as criminalization.

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