I don't understand when someone says "abortion should be rare"...

[Cassidy]

45. No other medical procedure endangers the lives of the medical professionals involved.

As was stated above, a legal abortion is safer than carrying a pregnancy to term.

At centers where abortions are offered a few of the safety procedures include:
You must have a prior appointment.
All doors are locked so you have to be buzzed in.
The receptionist sits behind bullet proof glass and you have to show adequate ID as soon as you enter.
Doors are locked behind patients when they are allowed back into the medical area.

The patients don't need to be protected from the procedure, they need to be protected from the murderous anti-choice fanatics.

Radical right-wing legislators, predominantly male, are doing everything they can to make abortion too expensive to afford They are making it de facto illegal by simply pricing it beyond reach. So, when you talk about throwing health care dollars at problems that don't need to be there, perhaps you should also consider the expense (in lives as well as dollars) that the murderous anti-choice thugs are forcing upon society.