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

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56. Is an abortion the best, most efficeint, and safest way to reduce the rates of unwanted pregnancies?

Last edited Sat Nov 9, 2013, 11:43 AM - Edit history (1)

Silly question. Using methods to not get pregnant are cheap and effective for a high percentage of cases. Birth control pills, condoms, and spermicides are quite cheap.

So, abortion should be less common than the use of birth control pills, condoms, and spermicides.

And what about education. Giving young women and men good, straightforward information on sex and contraception is more expensive that just handing them a rubber of pill, but when you couple that with cheap, easily available contraception you have a system that eliminates the vast number of unwanted pregnancies.

(I want to add that developing a male birth control pill should be a top priority in any system we develop to make abortion rare. )

So, just by combining education with Contraception we can make the need for abortions very uncommon, perhaps even rare.

Now, we add to that morning after pills (a form of emergency contraception) for those women who suffer rape, or even for someone who wakes up and thinks (Oh, crap, I didn't take my pill, or he says, the condom broke).

By setting up a system where contraception is available to any one who needs it, augmenting that with honest sex education, and with emergency methods such as the morning after pill, abortion can become rare.

The call to make it rare has nothing to do with the decision making process, but the system we set up before a woman ever needs to make that tough decision.

Abortion should be rare because it is the most inefficient and unsafe method of dealing with an unwanted pregnancy. We have the means to stop one from happening at all in the vast number of cases. I could argue that it is already rare. How many people have sex in America every day. How many get pregnant. How many of those pregnancies happen because the pill failed, the condom broke, or the sperm laughed at that spermicide and kicked its ass before entering the ovum, or from some other accidental cause, or from incest, or rape.

But when a woman decides to get an abortion for any reason there should be a doctor and a hospital that will provide that service without any questions as part of normal healthcare.