Concerning my post on the uptick in abortions in Africa that correlates with a drop in United States funding to those clinics, a reader writes:
Another classic case of politicians imagining themselves to be geniuses, when even the actual geniuses are incapable of predicting the unintended consequences of making a policy change in a complex system of complex systems.
Indeed. I found the subtitle on this NYT article equally fascinating:
If Roe v. Wade were overturned, the number of abortions would fall in these places.
Would it? Or would the women being forced to make that decision because of the closing of Planned Parenthood offices, which provide contraceptive services, as well as the general shadow cast on the entire idea of controlling one’s reproductive behavior, result in higher rates of abortion, child poverty, and childbirth deaths?
My curiosity is merely morbid and need not be satisfied.
