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Dreaded_Anomaly comments on Politics Discussion Thread August 2012 - Less Wrong Discussion

0 Post author: OrphanWilde 01 August 2012 03:25PM

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Comment author: Dreaded_Anomaly 02 August 2012 08:27:02AM 2 points [-]

Long lasting birth control exists and the various methods have much lower failure rates than the once-a-day pill.

Here's a large analysis from the Guttmacher Institute about rates of contraception use vs. rates of abortion. Increased contraception use along with improving methods dramatically reduces the abortion rate.