Le contrôle, ça marche pas

[pankkake]

Monday, 29/10/2007:

19:01 - HOW CONTROLS FAIL:

I just read last week´s edition of The Economist (it always makes sense to read it later if you didn´t find the time when it was new) and found two interesting stories about how bans and controls don´t work:

- One story was about how California is being invaded by foreign marijuana producers - Mexican criminal gangs start outdor plantations and east Asians gangs start indoor factories. Why? Becasue tighter border security after 9/11 has made it more risky to cross the borders, so the sellers move into town.

- The other story was about bans on abortion, which leads to dangerous procedures that kill 67,000 women every year. Latin America has the most restrictive abortion laws and it also has the highest abortion rate, 31 per 1,000 women age 15-44. Africa and Asia also has a lot of restrictions and there the rate is 29. Western Europe, with the most liberal laws, had the lowest rate - just 12 per 1,000 women.

And in fact, as abortion laws have generally become more liberal 1995-2005, the global abortion rate fell from 35 to 29.

http://www.johannorberg.net/?page=displayb…;year=2007#2400 - je précise que pour lui liberal == libéral, c'est un suédois