Passing Universal Health Care Will Not Reduce Abortion Rates

In an editorial that ran in the Washington Post on Friday, author and journalist T. R. Reid argued that universal health care will lower the abortion rate in the United States. Using data from the United Nations, his argument relies on the fact that several European countries with universal health care also have lower abortion rates than the United States does. Reid’s analysis is, however, superficial and unconvincing. LifeNews