How to truly stop abortions...

[SheilaT]

19. Or irreversible vasectomies on all males

at age 9 or so. Of course, then people would slowly disappear, which would actually do the planet a favor. Perhaps the next time an intelligent species evolved it would be more responsible about everything.

But more to the point, women do not get pregnant all by themselves. The availability of birth control is a huge start, but most methods have some known failure rate, and has already been pointed out, pregnancies can go wrong in various ways.

Women will always be getting abortions. Anyone who thinks that no one got one prior to Roe v Wade, or that they were incredibly uncommon then, is an ignorant fool.

I'm old enough to remember well before Roe v. Wade, and I'd say women have been getting abortions at pretty much the same rate before and after.