Unfortunately, few Americans know or care what goes on outside God's own country, so the fact that the Republican platform calls for replicating the abortion laws of such child-friendly nations as Afghanistan and El Salvador gets little attention. Now comes Jean Ruth Schroedel, associate professor of political science at Claremont Graduate University, whose findings test whether opposition to abortion in the United States is motivated by concern for children or by a desire to restrict and control women. A Comparison of Policies in the Fifty States , Schroedel sets out three criteria. This follows the global pattern. They spend less money per child on a range of services, from the adoption of special needs children to foster care to welfare to education.
Empirical research is a wonderful thing.
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