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to a 2005 SurveyUSA poll, Silver writes. He writes that it "seems" that "people do practice what they preach," as for "each increase of about 10%" in the number of self-identifying "pro-life" residents, the "percentage of pregnancies ending in abortion is reduced by about 5%." Silver states that he "ran a regression analysis" to test whether states with more self-identifying "pro-life" residents "have more restrictive abortion laws," but he "generally did not find any significant relationships." However, "it does appear that" the four states where abortion was legal before Roe v. Wade "maintain somewhat higher abortion rates today." Silver continues that one "complication" is "that of access," noting that there is a "very strong relationship … between having access to an abortion provider in one"s county and the pro-life leanings of that state." He also writes that data from the Guttmacher Institute "suggests that abortion providers in pro-life states carry a larger caseload," which "may imply that there are either too few providers in pro-life states to meet the demand for abortion (or too many in pro-choice states)." He concludes, "I"m not going to try and sum this up with a nice, sugary conclusion" because it "is a complicated issue, and appropriately enough, it has complicated answers, even when it comes to statistics" (Silver, FiveThirtyEight, 6/2). Reprinted with kind permission from http://www.nationalpartnership.org. You can view the entire Daily Women"s Health Policy Report, search the archives, or sign up for email delivery here. The Daily Women"s Health Policy Report is a free service of the National Partnership for Women & Families, published by The Advisory Board Company. © 2009 The Advisory Board Company. All rights reserved.

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