Friday, April 24, 2015

Actual headline: 'How recognizing gay marriage can increase abortions'

Oh, my goodness. Anti-marriage-equality idiocy may have reached its highest, most distilled form with this one. Brace yourself:

In a nutshell: A reduction in the opposite-sex marriage rate means an increase in the percentage of women who are unmarried and who, according to all available data, have much higher abortion rates than married women. And based on past experience, institutionalizing same-sex marriage poses an enormous risk of reduced opposite-sex marriage rates.
That's appellate attorney Gene Schaerr writing at the Daily Signal, if you want to dig up the link for yourself. I just ... I don't even know what to do with this. Marriage equality means more abortions? Because marriage equality undermines opposite-sex marriage and if there are more unmarried straight women there are more abortions? No such argument would be complete without cherry-picked data. For instance, Schaerr insists that marriage rates declined immediately in the early marriage equality states  READ MORE

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