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I hate to drag abortion into this, but like marijuana, making abortion illegal doesn't mean girls who are desperate enough won't get the abortion done even if it means in the back ally. We're better off making it legal and then focusing on 'other' methods like education and birth control to help prevent the reason someone might want an abortion. In the abortion threads I love to remind people that we're one of the few countries with no 'legal' limits on when an abortion can happen. Despite that, abortion rates in Canada have been dropping.

As much as I hate the idea of abortion, I can't argue with facts.

Marijuana is the same way. Legalize and focus on educational efforts to keep kids from doing drugs. While I was in high school the Alberta Government made a serious effort to educate kids about the effects of crystal meth, and IIRC, it resulted in crystal meth usage rates dropping over the subsequent years.

Banning something has never worked. People just think it does.

Archaic drug laws just serve to push down the minorities. Especially in the US where the drug war has affected black people a lot more.