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

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47. And yet you're arguing with DUers who have

explained that this isn't their interpretation of rare. If I said I supported abortion as "safe, legal and covered completely by a single payer health care system" do you think I would ONLY support it if we had single payer health insurance?

Some parts of the country are rapidly imposing condition after condition to make abortions rarer, but having an argument here, on the DU, you're not talking to those people. You're not even talking to people who have the same goals. The term IS ambiguous, as you yourself has acknowledged, and as I posted originally on this, some people have falsely tried to equate access to abortion and the frequency of abortion, when they are not the same thing.

Some people who use "rare" are seeking to limit one's access to abortion, no doubt. Others who use "rare" are seeking to limit one's need for an abortion by providing other alternatives that one MIGHT choose to use, but without seeking to limit ANYONE's access to the procedure if desired. This is why you would continually find people here who don't agree that it "it always comes down to a desire to limit abortion for themselves AND others"