Free birth control cuts abortion rate dramatically, study finds

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By Brian Alexander, NBC News Contributor

A dramatic new study with implications for next month’s presidential election finds that offering women free birth control can reduce unplanned pregnancies -- and send the abortion rate spiraling downward.

When more than 9,000 women ages 14 to 45 in the St. Louis area were given no-cost contraception for

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[spiffynamehere]

I, FOR ONE, AM SHOCKED.

[ameliorate]

Here with everyone else: WHA? Ya don't say? *mind blown*

[maynardsong]

Yeah? It's rather hard to terminate a pregnancy that does not exist in the first place.

[katiemariie]

Not according to Todd Akin.