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In reply to the discussion: Abortion has never been rare. Why is that an expectation now? [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,036 posts)Mostly because this is getting tired.
Abortion has always been rare. Always.
Take the number of women in the country and the number of abortions every year and do the math.
It is rare, unless your definition of common is a really small percentage.
The number of abortions are trending downward as access to better birth control becomes more common. And that is a good thing.
Birth control = common
Abortion = Rare
It is a pretty direct correlation, and as that access to birth control gets even better than the number of abortions will continue to drop. And that is a good thing.
An abortion is not a positive, it is a negative, and helping to curb the unwanted, or unhealthy, pregnancy will continue to drive those numbers down. Better birth control, better access to birth control, better ... wait for it
HEALTH CARE!!!!
We will continue to see the number of abortions drop if more effective, free, and widely available contraception becomes the normal. If they develop a male version of the pill that number will drop by huge percentages. And that is a good thing.