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Originally Posted by Infinite_Loser
That's a bold faced lie. There's a strong correlation between the legality of abortion and the number of abortions (Both legal and illegal) performed per year.
Edit: And it's near political suicide to say "I support abortion". I can't remember the exact statistic, but most candidates who have been openly pro-abortion typically lose to their pro-life counterparts.
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All the statistics I have seen show the pro-choice movement with a strong lead in numbers in most states, and a good 10-15% lead nation wide. Now if you talk about partial birth or late term abortions, as someone else here pointed out earlier, you arent going to find much support for that at all, except among the most hardcore of pro-choicers. Late term abortions account for what amounts to an irrelevant number of abortions. Its safe to say when someone says they are pro-choice, they pretty much mean first trimester abortions.
And abortion laws appear to have little or no effect on the number of abortions that are performed in any given country:
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Results: Approximately 26 million legal and 20 million illegal abortions were performed worldwide in 1995, resulting in a worldwide abortion rate of 35 per 1,000 women aged 15–44. Among the subregions of the world, Eastern Europe had the highest abortion rate (90 per 1,000) and Western Europe the lowest rate (11 per 1,000). Among countries where abortion is legal without restriction as to reason, the highest abortion rate, 83 per 1,000, was reported for Vietnam and the lowest, seven per 1,000, for Belgium and the Netherlands. Abortion rates are no lower overall in areas where abortion is generally restricted by law (and where many abortions are performed under unsafe conditions) than in areas where abortion is legally permitted.
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http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/journals/25s3099.html
There was a more recent study that had similar findings, trying to see if I can dig it up