Abortion has never been rare. Why is that an expectation now?

[NoOneMan]

46. "I do not see any way you can say it is not."

I am not saying it is not. Im not saying either. I'm just asking for how you (or the other poster) can prove that it is.

Read through this to see how access is restricted.

I get all that. I guess what would be useful is to see a time line to see if such restrictions correlate to a drop in the rate of abortion, as Gollygee suggested that there should be a relationship. If those were all in place since the 80s, then they should have no bearing.

In any case, has not access to birth control and sex education similarly reduced unwanted pregnancies in much the same way that would correlate with the abortion rate dropping? Teen pregnancies are certainly down. Honestly, I do not know if prevention programs are more or less prevalent than the 80s.

Many have closed because of that threat, further limiting access.

Do you have a graph of number of providers since 70s? I couldn't find anything like that.

On edit: here is a graph of the number of providers:



There is a significant decline. But it almost appears to be entirely from hospitals, right?


Oh, hear is another interesting graph:



Countries with liberal abortion laws, and presumably better access, have lower abortion rates than the others. Though, this may also correlate with them having better prevention programs or completely different demographic makeups and social trends