On Tuesday, the Alabama state legislature decisively passed a bill that would criminalize all abortions in the state. It was accompanied with the usual tripe about the sanctity of life. “When God creates the miracle of life inside a woman’s womb,” one Alabama state legislator piously opined, “it is not our place as human beings to extinguish that life.”
Less than 24 hours later, we got a chance to see just how well the United States actually does at encouraging women to give birth to children: not well at all.
According to data released Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, fertility among women in the United States hit a record low.