Researchers in Australia have confronted a most pressing question as America nears the 40th anniversary of Roe vs. Wade: Just what has been the effect of abortion legalization on pet ownership among women in the United States?
A?paper?recently published at the Social Science Research Network by economists at Monash University, titled ?Child vs. Pet: The Effect of Abortion Legalization on the Demand for Pets? found that the demand for pets slightly increased with the legalization of abortion.
?We find that the demand for pets is affected by liberalization of birth control methods, suggesting a substitutable property of pets for children,? the researchers wrote. ?The probability of women affected by abortion legalization owning any pet is 9.6 percentage points higher than for non-affected women.?
They add that women ?affected? by abortion legalization spent on average eight minutes more on pets.
To get these results, the Monash economists compared women living in early-abortion legalizing states (like California, New York, Washington, Alaska, and Hawaii) at the peak of their childbearing years in the 1970s to women in other states in non-legal abortion states and looked at their patterns of pet ownership in the years following their childbearing years in 2010 and 2011 ? using data from the March Current Population Survey (CPS) and the American Time Use Survey (ATUS) in 2010 and 2011.
The researchers explained that due to a lack of data on pet ownership in the past, they were unable to examine the effects of the abortion legalization on pet ownership when Roe vs. Wade first passed in the 1970s.
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Source: http://dailycaller.com/2013/01/10/study-abortion-legalization-increased-demand-for-pets/
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