[nyg4168]

Is that true that Massachussetts has the lowest abortion and divorce rates in the country? I hadn't heard that.

[grellis]

I find the statistics exceedingly hard to believe as well. IIRC, one of the red southern states--Alabama, if I'm not mistaken--has one abortion clinic. One. I'm willing to bet that, taken as a per capita percentage, very few red states have high abortion rates when compared to blue states. There are probably a few exceptions but still...

What should we expect? Its Moby. He's a moron.

[wvobiwan]

Only because Mass. has more gays and lesbians per capita than anywhere else.

[Verginius Rufus]

I don't have the state-by-state break-down for divorces, and the figures for abortions are from 2000, but as of then the statement is not true.

Massachusetts in 2000 had a rate of 21.4 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44, slightly above the national average of 21.3. Of the 11 former Confederate states, only Florida had a rate higher than the national average. Mississippi, South Carolina, and Arkansas all had rates less than half of the national average. Kentucky had a pretty low rate (5.3)--sometimes considered Southern although the state did not secede. Wyoming had the lowest rate (1.0).

Of course some women may have crossed state lines for an abortion so the rates may not give a fully accurate picture.

[E=MC²]

As for divorces in the great blue north-east, I have it on good authority that everyone has a wife, mistress and girlfriend (think klinton's marriage). I wouldn't consider supporting such "marriages" as MORAL.

[chudogg]

There was a follow up report that the statistics were cherry picked and skewed to get the desired results. Don't feel like searching, try google.