[OC] USA Abortion Rate, by President

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PuppyJitsuka on June 11st, 2020 at 13:16 UTC »

Wow, 1 in 5 is a surprisingly high rate.

HDSQ on June 11st, 2020 at 13:41 UTC »

I presume that abortion rates are most likely to be inversely correlated with access to affordable birth control. Has Trump repealed or passed any bills which have caused a drop in the ease of access to birth control?

ABetterToday on June 11st, 2020 at 16:15 UTC »

As this is data is beautiful: I think the graph should stop when the data stops, or indicate the transition visually from real data to projected data. A dotted line would be a common way to do this on a line graph. Even with the text box explaining that there is a projection involved, I think that it's visually misleading.

Imagine Trump's red area were only 1/4 the width. It would indicate to me that there is not yet enough data to make a strong conclusion about how the number of abortions changed throughout the term.