Yes but birth control is an ideological purity issue for the various wings right now. Logic and reason has little or nothing to do with it, as we have seen.
On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:20 AM, Cameron Childress <[email protected]> wrote: > > Yeah, I think that even though the Freakonomics study is about abortion, it > definitely supports free birth control across the board. Actually, I would > think that it would totally support the anti-abortion crowd getting behind > contraception. Contraception would not only reduce poverty, but reduce > abortions as well. Win-win. > > -Cameron > > On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 7:49 PM, Larry C. Lyons <[email protected]>wrote: > >> My rant was not directed against you Cam, you can be quire reasonable and >> actually use logic regularly. I am sure the guilty parties can identfiy >> themselves. But the freakonomics study you refer to is quite intersting, >> equating the drop in crime ove the last 15-20 years to the liberalization >> of abortion laws. That's the cool thing about behavioral economics in >> general what it find out quite frequently totally shoots down myths >> treasured by the left and right. Classic examples are behavioral traps >> (where short term gains have very negative long term consequen >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:348168 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
