Of course more abortions are a good thing, to a point. When there are more abortions, it means that women have more control over their own reproduction. This means that there are less unwanted pregnancies, which in turn raises standards of living, lowers crime, keeps families together, and has people's self assessment of their own happiness increase.
Now with greater access to information and reproductive control, women have less surgical abortions and more denied implantations. And that's easier and safer for people. Ironically, the best information and reproductive control tends to come from the same people who do surgical abortions - so
actually you get lower rates of surgical abortion
and a happier populace when you have abortion freely available like in the Netherlands than when you have abortion illegalized and hidden away like the Philippines.
But yes, assuming you have goals that include:
- The health and wellbeing of women.
- Lowering violent crime.
- Reducing strain on government orphanages.
- Increasing life expectancy.
- Reducing the prevalence of diseases.
- Reducing the number of botched surgical abortion procedures.
...then you'd want to have surgical abortion on-demand and have women everywhere be able to go to reproductive clinics at any time for any or no reason at all and get consultations or procedures freely. The movement to marginalize abortion care in the United States is one of the reasons that our infant mortality rate is more than twice that of Sweden.
But all of that is because we actually have a lot of data on abortions. Because whether it's legal like Norway or illegal like Romania,
people still do it. And whether there are trained professionals like in the United Kingdom or not like in the Republic of Ireland,
people still do it. So we can actually get a lot of data on how the procedures affect society, and what procedures have the better success rates and so on and so forth.
Sexual Reassignment Surgery does not work like that. It pretty much requires going to a doctor to do, because it's major and invasive plastic surgery. And no, we don't have good data on how effective it is. In part because it's incredibly rare. In other part because every medical organization that is involved at all has a horse in the race.
We are pretty sure transsexuals kill themselves fairly frequently. Pre-op and post-op transsexuals kill themselves a substantial amount of the time. But... how substantial? We don't really know, because there isn't a reliable "transsexuality test." Transsexuals look and smell exactly like the rest of the population, because they are still normal humans. Our only test is to ask people if they are transsexuals, and most of them lie. The high end of studies on transsexuality suicide comes out at 30%. That's a big number, but it was also attained by totaling up the number of people who killed themselves and dividing it by the percentage of people in the whole population who say that they are trans when asked - which since a majority of trans people are closeted means that number is total bullshit.
How often do post-op transsexuals kill themselves? We don't know. There is no way for us
to know, because there isn't a master list anywhere of all the post-op transsexuals. Studies that followup on procedures are all voluntary compliance. Getting responses from even 80% of the people would be a frickin dream come true. So seriously, how would you
know that suicide rates are lower in post-op transsexuals? Because all the people who came back to respond to questions about their condition by the clinic that performed their operation were still alive? Talk about selection bias!
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