Garrett Hardin Quotes
The only reason we have late abortions is because we make early abortion difficult.
See {592411} for Hardin’s reputation on abortion.
Garrett Hardin, Human Ecologist, Board Member Emeritus, Federation for American Immigration Reform, Interview by Frank Meile, “Living Within Limits & Limits on Living”
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Part of this maldistribution problem is a general health care distribution problem in rural areas. The larger part however, is the result of the religious and right to life pressures which tend to have more affect in rural areas than in cities and suburbs. One pressure is the fear that abortion providers have as a result of the many murders and assaults of the right to life forces.
Although abortion was illegal and condemned by virtually all elements of American society, it was practiced in numbers far in excess of anything that occurred after abortion had become legal. The economic and social pressure for abortion was the major driver of abortion then and has probably almost always been so.
Not all abortion opponents object to birth control, but many do believing the two practices to be morally sinful. While the abortion conflict is given more publicity there are many in America who would return to the pre 1963 era when birth control was criminalized.
At the time the United States was the only developed country where the early abortion drugs were not available without a doctor's prescription. Ironically the drugs were even safer than the previous surgical abortion procedures where were already extremely safe. But the politics of the "culture wars" at the time obstructed scientific and medical decision making at the FDA.
His point was that if the Federal right to abortion was overturned, the states would have different laws. California would almost certainly allow abortion so rich women could fly there to have their abortions. Poor women would use Cytotec—a drug that causes abortion.
In what may be the first written record of abortion in the "new world"
Garrett James Hardin was an American ecologist who warned of the dangers of human overpopulation. He is most known for his exposition of the tragedy of the commons, in a 1968 paper of the same title in Science, which called attention to "the damage that innocent actions by individuals can inflict on the environment". He is also known for Hardin's First Law of Human Ecology: "We can never do merely one thing. Any intrusion into nature has numerous effects, many of which are unpredictable.":112 He is listed by the Southern Poverty Law Center as a white nationalist, whose publications were "frank in their racism and quasi-fascist ethnonationalism".
