Why would anyone care whether a woman has an abortion or not?

[AtheistCrusader]

153. I want to see it become rare because

in many cases, it's proof that we are FAILING in other areas.

Rape rates.
Contraceptive access.
Family planning/sex education.
Others.

It's a final line of defense that should not be tested nearly as often as it is, because there are cheaper, safer, front-end measures that prevent the whole thing from becoming an issue.

I know some women, including a roommate that had abortions. Roomie openly wished she had known more about the contraceptive she was intermittently using at the time. That's a public safety/health issue that can be addressed. That's a big red F on the report card of public health education in our local school system (engendered by right wing fuckery to promote abstinence only education on 'equal footing' with comprehensive sex ed.).


Abortion is actually safer than giving birth, but you know what's safer than abortion? Never getting pregnant unintentionally in the first place.

That takes good public policy on public health/education, and we're just not there yet.
I earnestly desire to take this issue away from the right wing, by making it no longer an issue at all.


Edit: Essentially, I would like to help build a world in which the evangelical right is holding nothing more than an empty sack full of crocodile tears about abortions that aren't happening anymore anyway, because unintended pregnancy is a thing of the past.

If they want to whine about medically necessary abortions after that, I will man the FUCK out of that barricade without apology.