Bill Nye Supports Planned Parenhood, Women’s Abortion Rights - Tech Insider
There are also real impacts on women who are denied abortions, Nye says:
At some point, we have to respect the facts. Closing abortion clinics, not giving women access to birth control, has not been an effective way to lead to healthier societies.
Scientific studies trying to parse the physical and psychological toll following an abortion have been limited, short-term, and specific to certain clinics.
But preliminary results of a nationwide, ongoing longitudinal study out of University of California at San Francisco suggest that women who want abortions but cannot receive them — whether that be due to a late-stage pregnancy, cost, or health complications — are more likely to be poor and to stay in abusive relationships. Analysis of women who were able to receive an abortion indicate that they were not likely to experience negative lingering psychological effects, such as depression.
“Despite the fact that women feel a range of emotions about their abortion experience, predominately relief, although some regret and sadness as well, almost all women, including those who have mostly negative emotions believe that abortion was the right decision for them over the long-term,” Rana Barar, project director of the study, said in a blog post.
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Also SeeBill Nye: Can We Stop Telling Women What to Do With Their Bodies? at The Big Think“You have a lot of men of European descent passing these extraordinary laws based on ignorance,” Nye said in the video. “We have so many more important things to be dealing with … to squandor resources on this argument based on bad science … is very frustrating.”