The "abortion should be rare" argument is thinly veiled paternalism.

[AverageJoe90]

74. Good post, but do I think it depends on the intent of the statement.

TBH, I am pro-choice, but, TBH, my ideal world would be one where abortions are indeed rare.....where rape is practically non-existent(at least to the extent possible, though we may never be able to totally eliminate it.); where people rarely make uninformed life-planning decisions; and one where foster children can always have a really great chance of finding a good home.....

With that said, though, I also realize that, unfortunately, we don't live in such a perfect world; rape is still a rather significant problem(perhaps as many as one in every 15 women, maybe even more.), quite a few people do still find themselves having babies at the wrong time in their lives, and adopted children still face a chance of ending up in a dysfunctional, or even abusive, family setting, and biological children neglected by parents who couldn't handle the responsibility.....

So I too, support making abortion as available as humanly possible to any woman to may truly need, or even desire, such for any reason.