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Gene Schaerr, the lawyer who failed to defend Utahs ban on same-sex marriages last year, recently warned that gay weddings would be to blame for 900,000 abortions.
Writing for the conservative Heritage Foundations Daily Signal last week, Schaerr began with the faulty logic that a reduction in the opposite-sex marriage rate means an increase in the percentage of women who are unmarried and who, according to all available data, have much higher abortion rates than married women.
According to Schaerr, fewer married women meant abortion rates would skyrocket.
Accordingly, with 1.275 million additional women never getting married, nearly 900,000 more children of the next generation would be aborted as a result of their mothers never marrying, he wrote. Schaerr added that same-sex marriages would effectively be wiping out a population equal to the entire population of the cities of Sacramento and Atlanta combined.
However, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank was skeptical of Schaerrs argument, noting that marriage rates had been declining in states like Texas and Utah even when same-sex marriages were banned. Schaerr had posited that unmarried men would be less likely take part in a girlfriends pregnancy if a state had legalized same-sex marriage.
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hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Johonny
(20,851 posts)you get extra hard dumb statements.
fredamae
(4,458 posts)TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)silly wing of Heritage.
sufrommich
(22,871 posts)have to do with gay people?
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)what was that! Duh! Yes folks it is for real.
Vinca
(50,273 posts)Apparently Mr. Schaerr is counting on divine intervention to impregnate "the gay" so they get abortions.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)"Now, speaking of consistency, Catholics, which I was until I reached the age of reason, Catholics and other Christians are against abortions, and theyre against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals?! Leave these fucking people alone, for Christ sakes! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed never to have an abortion! And the Catholics and Christians are just tossing them aside! Youd think theyd make natural allies. Go look for consistency in religion."-- George Carlin