{"id":93732,"date":"2016-05-02T19:46:49","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:46:49","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=93732"},"modified":"2016-05-02T19:46:49","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T23:46:49","slug":"abortion-centers-are-closing-because-women-dont-need-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortion-centers-are-closing-because-women-dont-need-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion centers are closing because women don&#8217;t need them"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Do you hear that? It\u2019s the sound of a narrative beginning to crack because its advocates have saddled it with far too much weight.<\/p>\n<p>At FiveThirtyEight, Madeleine Schwartz <a href=\"http:\/\/fivethirtyeight.com\/features\/abortion-clinics-in-blue-states-are-closing-too\/\">writes<\/a> that, despite the ongoing chorus of &#8216;extreme anti-abortion laws are forcing abortion clinics to close,&#8217; &#8220;abortion clinics in blue states are closing, too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As the most significant example, she notes that despite the fact that California laws are\u00a0so extremely pro-abortion that it\u2019s the only state to which NARAL <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prochoiceamerica.org\/assets\/download-files\/2016-wd-report.pdf\">gives an A+<\/a>, twelve abortion facilities have shut down there since 2011.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>And while less extreme, the overall picture is still striking:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">According to Nikki Madsen, executive director of the Abortion Care Network, a national association for independent abortion care providers, for every three independent abortion clinics in her network that close in more conservative states, about two have closed in more liberal states over the past five years. She broadly defines these more liberal states as those that offer Medicaid funding for abortion, almost all of which voted for President Obama in the 2012 election.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Though rare, such admissions aren\u2019t completely unprecedented. Last November, we <a href=\"\/news\/surprise-abortion-clinics-closing-just-much-blue-states-red\/\">covered a similar article<\/a> from the Guardian, which went so far as to acknowledge that \u201cof more than 50 clinics that closed for good in 2014,\u201d a \u201clittle more than half were located in blue states.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The natural takeaway from this news is that abortion seems to be a less in-demand commodity than the <a href=\"\/news\/myth-that-1-in-3-women-have-abortions-persists-despite-hard-evidence-to-the-contrary\/\">myths of so many women eventually needing it<\/a> would have you believe. So like the Guardian piece, Schwartz explores a number of explanations for the decline, and in fact they\u2019re largely the same explanations: costs being hard to cover while trying to keep prices low, difficulty getting timely reimbursements for the \u201cmedically necessary\u201d (actually <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ysl1tRnk-ig\">unnecessary<\/a>) abortions Medicaid does cover, and Planned Parenthood\u2019s most self-serving, that increased contraception is to thank for fewer women seeking abortions.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"\/news\/surprise-abortion-clinics-closing-just-much-blue-states-red\/\">read the previous piece<\/a> for a general look at why those reasons are overrated, so here let\u2019s focus on a couple observations that hopefully get to the heart of the matter.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/AbortionProcedures.com\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88619\" src=\"https:\/\/www.liveactionnews.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg\" alt=\"levatino-ad-LAN\" width=\"306\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN.jpg 306w, https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/levatino-ad-LAN-300x221.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 306px) 100vw, 306px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>While simple cost factors undoubtedly play a role, they\u2019re also factors in the pro-life states demonized as \u201cforcing\u201d facilities to close, so if abortion regulations really are as burdensome as they say, the difference between closings should <em>definitely<\/em>\u00a0be more dramatic than a 1:1 ratio in 2014, with abortion-friendly states even edging out pro-life ones.<\/p>\n<p>So why isn\u2019t it? I believe it boils down to the simple fact that \u201ccontraception did it\u201d doesn\u2019t square with the evidence. We\u2019ve been pointing out for years that birth control is <a href=\"\/news\/sandra-fluke-returns-forced-contraception-activist-to-campaign-for-obama\/\">already cheap enough and so widely accessible<\/a> that inability to obtain it can\u2019t plausibly be a large enough factor to change the direction of America\u2019s pregnancy rates anymore. And sure enough, it isn\u2019t. I once again defer to pro-life researcher extraordinaire Michael New, who first <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/380134\/guttmacher-misleads-reasons-teen-pregnancy-decline-michael-j-new\">details<\/a> the evidence that teens actually are having less sex in the first place, but more significantly that the contraception push <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/421956\/no-defunding-planned-parenthood-not-sure-increase-number-abortions-michael-j-new?target=author&amp;tid=900080\">has backfired spectacularly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A 2003 Guttmacher Institute study showed that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/journals\/2900603.pdf\">contraception use and abortion rates rose simultaneously in several countries<\/a>. A 1996 Quarterly Journal of Economics Study, which was co-authored by Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, found that the advent of the birth-control pill led to more sexual activity and more unintended pregnancies. And a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.psc.isr.umich.edu\/pubs\/pdf\/rr11-737.pdf\">University of Michigan study<\/a> analyzed what happened when the 2005 Federal Deficit Reduction Act led to a sharp increase in the price of birth-control pills at college health centers. It found that there were statistically significant decreases in both the frequency of sexual intercourse and the number of sex partners. The unintended-pregnancy rate remained about the same.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/corner\/427773\/abortion-decline-2012?target=author&amp;tid=900080\">And<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">While surveys do find that contraceptive use is increasing, the unintended pregnancy rate has remained stable \u2014 and by some measures has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html\">actually increased<\/a> since the mid 1990s. A better explanation for the abortion decline is that a smaller percentage of unintended pregnancies ended in abortion. According to data from the Guttmacher Institute, the percentage of unintended pregnancies ending in abortion fell from 54 percent to 40 percent between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/journals\/3002498.html\">1994<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guttmacher.org\/pubs\/journals\/ajph.2013.301416.pdf\">2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last August, Live Action\u2019s Susan Michelle also <a href=\"\/news\/declining-abortion-rate-multiple-explanations-missing-data\/\">looked at<\/a> the numbers and found:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">In 2010, the percentage of pregnancies that ended in abortion was 17.92% in 2010, and by 2013 it was 16.2% in 2013. What the numbers show\u00a0is that 74.3 percent of the abortion decline is due to fewer\u00a0women choosing abortion. Knowing the why more women are choosing life\u00a0though is not something that the data speaks to.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The other 25.7 percent of the abortion decline is\u00a0explained by fewer\u00a0women becoming pregnant. Factors\u00a0that impact this\u00a0include fertility rates, consistency of contraception use, and frequency of\u00a0sexual activity. Overall\u00a0from 2010 to 2013,\u00a0pregnancies were down 3.2 percent while\u00a0abortion was down 12.5 percent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Ultimately, Big Choice is struggling because women don\u2019t need it. More and more of them are finding they have <a href=\"\/news\/will-poor-women-go-health-care-defund-planned-parenthood-everywhere\/\">plenty of options<\/a> for their other health needs, and that when they do get pregnant, <a href=\"\/news\/choosing-life-seems-hard-pro-lifers-want-help\/\">support, assistance, and options<\/a> from people who actually care about both mother and child are waiting for them.<\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"\/news\/pregnancy-care-centers-saved-300000-babies-from-abortion-in-2015\/\">lives being saved<\/a> is bad for business, then maybe it\u2019s time to find a new line of work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you hear that? It\u2019s the sound of a narrative beginning to crack because its advocates have saddled it with far too much weight. At FiveThirtyEight, Madeleine Schwartz writes that, despite the ongoing chorus of &#8216;extreme anti-abortion laws are forcing abortion clinics to close,&#8217; &#8220;abortion clinics in blue states are closing, too.&#8221; As the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":89526,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[15],"tags":[8199,19,5990,3940,3376,5387,24,8632,8633,5123,6144,8354,349],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Abortion centers are closing because women don&#039;t need them<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"More women are finding they have options for their other health needs, and when they do get pregnant, help for both mother and child is waiting for them.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, 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