Please everyone, stop using terms like "anti-abortion"

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37. Not every woman wants a(nother) child; birth control, even used perfectly, fails

Yes, I too would like for there to be no rape. I'd also like perfect birth control available to everyone that has no failure rate. I wish it were much easier for young women (and men) who knew they didnt want to be parents to obtain sterilizations. But we aren't there yet, and there will always be women like me, for whom no children is the right number; or my very married grandmother, who had three and wanted no more.

Married women have abortions. Women in stable, long-term relationships have abortions. Women of all ages, races and classes have abortions. Many of them have thought this through long before the pregnancy happened. No one longs to have an abortion - or a root canal - although individuals with an unwanted pregnancy or an infected nerve may very much 'want' the procedure; not because it's fun or pain-free; but because it is the correct way for that individual to address her situation. And the vast majority of these individuals have no negative emotional sequelae to their abortions.