{"id":206920,"date":"2019-07-19T12:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=206920"},"modified":"2019-07-19T12:33:33","modified_gmt":"2019-07-19T17:33:33","slug":"researcher-good-girls-abortions-boys-successful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/researcher-good-girls-abortions-boys-successful\/","title":{"rendered":"Awful: Researcher claims it’s good for girls to have abortions… so boys can be successful"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Abortion is said to be something that is needed for the good of women — yet a new paper from the University of Utah argues that it’s actually men who need abortions to stay legal, so they can be successful. The study, which was led by assistant sociology professor Bethany G. Everett and published in the Journal of Adolescent Health<\/a>, the study purported to explain how teen boys are “abortion beneficiaries,” and it is therefore important to keep abortion<\/a> legal.<\/p>\n

In the press release<\/a> from the University of Utah, Everett said that abortion does not just benefit women. \u201cIt is important that we recognize the stigma women who have abortions and abortion providers face, yet there are people — namely, their male partners — who reap the benefits of this emotional labor and about whom we never talk,\u201d Everett said. \u201cWhat we found is that women\u2019s use of abortion during adolescence increases the likelihood that their male partners will graduate from college.\u201d<\/p>\n

The study followed men who “reported a pregnancy” while they were still teenagers, which ended in either an abortion or a live birth. This information, collected in 1994, was then followed up by tracking the same men in 2007 and 2008 to see which of them had completed college, as well as what their income was.\u00a0They found that among men whose partners kept the baby, 6% of them completed college, while 22% of men whose partner had an abortion graduated. Income, however, did not see much of a difference, with the exception of men who reported a live birth, but did not live with their child. \u201cThis could be driven by the fact that the men who have stable incomes are more likely to maintain a relationship with a partner and live with their children and have an extra push to be wage earners,\u201d Everett said.<\/p>\n

Still, Everett continued to insist that abortion helped teenage boys to grow up to become successful men, despite a lack of income disparity between men who raised their children and men whose partners had an abortion<\/em>. \u201cGiven what we know about the links between education and future income, it is likely that the wage gap will widen as these men age, allowing men whose partners reported abortions to continue to reap financial benefits from access to abortion,\u201d she claimed — a wide assumption.<\/p>\n

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