{"id":163819,"date":"2017-03-15T15:26:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=163819"},"modified":"2017-03-15T14:38:47","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T18:38:47","slug":"new-guttmacher-report-reaches-surprising-conclusion-obamacare-birth-control-mandate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-guttmacher-report-reaches-surprising-conclusion-obamacare-birth-control-mandate\/","title":{"rendered":"New Guttmacher report reaches surprising conclusion on Obamacare’s birth control mandate"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For years, abortion defenders have claimed the way to really<\/em> reduce abortions isn\u2019t to make them illegal or stop subsidizing them, but to increase funding and distribution of contraceptives so that women are less likely to get pregnant when they don\u2019t want to. In response, pro-lifers have made the case that further prevalence of birth control would be at best irrelevant and at worst encourage more of the very behavior that causes unwanted pregnancies.<\/p>\n

We\u2019re highly confident in the case<\/a> we\u2019ve made<\/a> for the latter proposition over the years, but you don\u2019t have to take our word for it anymore. You see, the Guttmacher Institute\u2014the pro-abortion think tank and outgrowth of Planned Parenthood<\/a> often misrepresented in the media as an objective provider of abortion data, despite not only its past but its recent history of manipulating data to push a narrative<\/a>\u2014just released a new study<\/a> looking at whether Obamacare\u2019s mandate of employer-provided, no-copay birth control vindicated the above thesis.<\/p>\n

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