64,000 pregnancies from rape in 14 states with abortion bans.
https://time.com/6588425/rape-pregnancy-us-abortion-bans/#:~:text=Rape%20resulted%20in%2064%2C565,Wednesday%20in%20medical%20journal%20JAMA.
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To be clear, this study, as they explicitly state, in no way directly counted pregnancies. This is simply an **estimate** made by taking the number of rape events and multiplying it by the typical background fertility rate.
So these are **not** actual numbers, simply an estimate. Here is the relevant text explaining this.
More importantly what this study intentionally ignores is that many of these women likely went out of state to get abortions. Meaning the actual number of pregnancies resulting from rape in these states is almost certainly far lower than the numbers stated here. In fact 10% of the numbers explicitly occured in states where they would legally be allowed abortions.
So yea these numbers are grossly inaccurate and they make it clear these are not "real" numbers.
> To estimate rape-related pregnancies, we multiplied the state-level estimate of vaginal rapes by the fraction likely to result in pregnancy (eMethods in Supplement 1)6 and then adjusted for the number of months between July 1, 2022, and January 1, 2024, that a total abortion ban was in effect. We used Stata, version 16.1 (StataCorp), to analyze the BJS survey data and Microsoft Excel for other calculations.
Absolutely, I agree, even one is too many.
So while this number is grossly inaccurate, a lie, and very much over inflated from the real numbers, and that is important to point out. Whatever hte real numbers actually are are, absolutely, too high, even if that number is 1.
As youll notice I said nothing about if the real number is acceptable or not.
Tip: see my bio. I state clearly I think abortions should be legal (With short windows), free, and tax paid. I also think pregnancy tests should be free.
So clearly I do not like abortions being illegal. This isnt about that, its about the fact that I also dont like lies, even those lies are intending to support a POV I agree with.
@freemo Why do you think you have any right to decide whether and when a woman can have an abortion? Medical emergencies arise late in some pregnancies which require the termination of the pregnancy.
@freemo Seriously? Even one woman being slightly inconvenienced in order to terminate a pregnancy resulting from rape is one too many and too much inconvenience.