Your daily reminder

This may be the stupidest ever.

Here’s your daily reminder that the universe is made of custard.

Here’s your daily reminder that sheep have 47 legs.

Here’s your daily reminder that Thomas Jefferson got a PhD in astrophysics at Stanford.

Here’s your daily reminder that it takes 5 hours to walk from Boston to San Diego.

In short, no, not everyone gets abortions. Let’s break this down to make it easy to grasp: there’s a whole large category of people who can’t get abortions, so that’s those people off the list right at the start. Here’s the funny thing: they’re roughly half of all people, so our tweeter made quite a big mistake!

Ok so roughly half of all people – men – can’t get abortions. Nor can either sex before puberty, for that matter, so the category of people who can get them (leaving aside for the moment whether they do or not) is post-puberty females.

And then there’s another big category, which is women who are happy to be pregnant, and thus don’t need or want abortions unless there’s a serious medical issue.

So who gets abortions? Women and girls who want or need to stop being pregnant and have access to abortions. It’s a pretty small fraction of everyone really.

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