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Study: Abortion legalization increased demand for pets
“We find that the demand for pets is affected by liberalization of birth control methods, suggesting a substitutable property of pets for children,” the researchers wrote. “The probability of women affected by abortion legalization owning any pet is 9.6 percentage points higher than for non-affected women.”
They add that women “affected” by abortion legalization spent on average eight minutes more on pets.
Youjin Hahn, one of the paper’s authors, explained to The Daily Caller that they were looking at a question that, “surprisingly,” no other researchers had yet investigated.
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I had read this earlier today. While only a correlation, and not proof of causation, it’s intuitively sensible that these go hand-in-hand. Sensible, albeit sick and depressing too.
Stoic Patriot on January 10, 2013 at 9:44 PM
Sad.
Fallon on January 10, 2013 at 10:26 PM
I hate abortion, but I call BS. This is a very old line that has been trotted out too many times with little more than hearsay as evidence. Plus I’ve volunteered at an animal shelter for years.
MelonCollie on January 10, 2013 at 10:35 PM
I’ve never married or had kids. I’ve always had cats though.
Not that I’ve never had to deal with kids. My sisters saw to that. Both of them have had kids by multiple fathers. Which has led me to take care of some of them more than they have…
They have learned to respect and treat my cats well, probably the best influence I’ve had on them.
Cats are like guns. They are an ally that must be respected and treated carefully, not taken for granted.
wildcat72 on January 10, 2013 at 11:09 PM
Allah? Kittens?
Bmore on January 10, 2013 at 11:21 PM
Well, at least with kittens, you can have grand kittens, great grand kittens, great great grand kittens, all within a few years. How rewarding. . .
Rode Werk on January 11, 2013 at 1:43 AM
Awww, poor thing!
You killed your kids, & now your house is too empty.
Love an animal & ease your conscience.
itsnotaboutme on January 11, 2013 at 6:00 AM