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  3. From: mike@gilligan.East.Sun.COM (Mike Roncadori)
  4. Newsgroups: talk.abortion,talk.politics.misc,talk.religion.misc,misc.legal
  5. Subject: Re: Supreme Court Upholds Freedom of Speech
  6. Date: 22 Jan 1993 11:18:21 -0500
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  10. References: <Jan.15.07.43.01.1993.21083@romulus.rutgers.edu> <1993Jan18.165516.5248@Princeton.EDU> <13960@optilink.COM>
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  13. In article <13960@optilink.COM> cramer@optilink.COM (Clayton Cramer) writes:
  14. #
  15. #Really?  Birth control was effectively unavailable in this country
  16. #to teenagers in the 1950s.  It was difficult or impossible for even
  17. #married couples to get, until the 1960s.  What happened to the abortion
  18. #rate after birth control became available?  It went up dramatically,
  19. #as did the illegitimacy rate.  Now, I won't claim that one caused
  20. #the other, because I'm quite sure that's not true.  But your claim,
  21. #that there is a "*direct* inverse correlation" is demonstrably
  22. #false.
  23. #
  24. #Birth control education, pills, condoms, etc., are readily available
  25. #throughout the U.S. now.  When are we going to see the unwanted
  26. #pregnancy rate drop to the level it was at in 1960, when these
  27. #items were rare, or usually illegal?
  28. #
  29.  
  30. Um... Just a thought...
  31.  
  32. You're neglecting the fact that the sexual revolution took place
  33. during this time period, aren't you?
  34.  
  35. -- Mike
  36.