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Showing Original Post only (View all)Abortion has never been rare. Why is that an expectation now? [View all]
Here's an older article about the history of abortion: http://www.theatlantic.com/past/docs/issues/97may/abortion.htm
The point is that abortion has never been rare. Not when it was originally legal, not when it was made illegal, and not now that it is again legal. It is unlikely to ever be rare. It is a medical procedure a large number of women find themselves to need at some point in their lives for a wide variety of reasons, not all of which could be controlled by using birth control or even if birth control were 100% effective.
Since abortion never has been rare, regardless of law or stigma, it seems very unlikely that abortion ever will be rare at any point in the future. Why increase the stigma by saying we wish it were rare? It's like pointing a finger at every woman who has had an abortion and saying, "Did you REALLY need one?" She's one of the reasons why it is not rare. Is that a problem?