Here’s one example—I suggest it only needs to be in somewhere near the right ballpark to have a significant impact.
We don’t know how many legal abortions there are in India each year, because they don’t keep good statistics. But suppose the rate is similar to most other countries with legal abortion—this would be about 4 million abortions a year. If, as I suggest, prohibition of abortion prevents at least half of abortions, then for every year you delay the legalisation of abortion, that would be at least 2 million lives saved. Given how neglected the topic is politically in many countries like India (on the pro-life side, at least), I think you could have delayed the legalisation of abortion by at least a month with a team of 10 people working full time for, say, a year. That’s perhaps £100,000 - and would have saved ~170k lives.
Again, this is pretty speculative, but if it is anywhere near the right ballpark, then it looks pretty compelling in terms of cost-effectiveness.
Here’s one example—I suggest it only needs to be in somewhere near the right ballpark to have a significant impact.
We don’t know how many legal abortions there are in India each year, because they don’t keep good statistics. But suppose the rate is similar to most other countries with legal abortion—this would be about 4 million abortions a year. If, as I suggest, prohibition of abortion prevents at least half of abortions, then for every year you delay the legalisation of abortion, that would be at least 2 million lives saved. Given how neglected the topic is politically in many countries like India (on the pro-life side, at least), I think you could have delayed the legalisation of abortion by at least a month with a team of 10 people working full time for, say, a year. That’s perhaps £100,000 - and would have saved ~170k lives.
Again, this is pretty speculative, but if it is anywhere near the right ballpark, then it looks pretty compelling in terms of cost-effectiveness.