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While I agree that harsh restrictions on reproductive healthcare are very bad policy in part for the reasons you mention, pointing this out doesn't seem like a
by AnnikaL 4y ago
While I agree that harsh restrictions on reproductive healthcare are very bad policy in part for the reasons you mention, pointing this out doesn't seem like a very effective counter-argument to the idea that things are better today than in the past. Prior to the Roe v. Wade decision, which came just 60 years ago, abortion was illegal in all circumstances in all states. Cancer survival rates have significantly increased thanks to advances in medical treatment.
There are certainly issues currently, and the state laws against abortion are part of that, but I think the 21st century is overall better than past time periods.
- frob 4y agoI guess you all in how you define the past versus today. Compared to just a year ago, it's worse. Compared to five ago, it's worse. Compared to twenty ago, it's worse. Compared to fourty ago, it's worse. But I guess if you compare it to when we were all hanging out in trees, it's better.
- ako 4y ago40 years ago - 1981-1982 was a very bad economic recession: https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/recession-of-1981-82 https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/recession-of-19... 20 years ago - 2001 end of the Internet bubble, many people lost their jobs. 2003 the US was waisting a lot of government money on an unjustified war in Irak blaming them for 9-11. Bush unnecessarily destroyed a positive government budget for a war that solved nothing.
- ako 4y agoAnd 40 years ago a much larger part of the world still lived in poverty, communism was still a big thing ruining the lives of many, and don’t forget the stress of the Cold War. Also pollution in big cities like London or New York was a much bigger problem than today, and overall safety in US large cities was worse than today, lots of crime.