The UK-based conservative group Society for the Protection of Unborn Children has launched a propaganda campaign claiming that same-sex marriage will lead to a surge of abortions.

According to a flier they've sent around, "Statistics show that unborn babies are four to five times more likely to be aborted outside of real marriage." They do not cite a source, naturally.

Jamie Lee Curtis Taete from VICE called up the group to get the scoop on their spurious claims. It's pretty hilarious:

VICE: Hey! Great news, I looked into the abortion rates of countries where same-sex marriage has been legal for five years or more and, with the exception of one country, there hadn't been any rise in the abortion rates.  

SPUC: Right.

VICE: In Spain it rose, but in Canada and South Africa it fell. And in the Netherlands and Belgium, there was no significant change. 

SPUC: Right… Well… I don't think anybody would expect any difference after five years. That's no time at all to make a judgement.

VICE: Well, it's been legal since 2001 in the Netherlands, so that's quite a long time. 

SPUC: Eleven years is not a huge amount of time to expect a big rise in the abortion rates.

VICE: But, it's been 11 years… How long is it going to take before straight people start saying, "You know what, I don't want to get married because it's been weakened too much by gays"? Like, 20? 

SPUC: It could be. When people do get married, the whole legal structure built around the child-rearing nature of marriage is removed. That may have consequences for the unborn, because the unborn, when it comes to the weakening of the definition of marriage, suffer most.