Reply #62: I'm in favor of reducing the number of surgical abortions

[Warren DeMontague]

• by funding research into better birth control.
• by making the morning after pill available OTC.
• by making standard birth control pills available OTC.
• by pushing for federal programs regarding day care, child care, health care and other means to support poor, single mothers.
• by pushing for comprehensive sex education in schools, including condom distribution.
• by working to ensure that everyone who wants birth control, ob-gyn, or reproductive health services has access to them.
• by encouraging people to have anal sex, oral sex, masturbate or engage in other activities that won't result in pregnancy. (I'm not kidding, either)
• by encouraging and supporting healthy, stable gay relationships, which almost never result in unwanted pregnancy.
• by supporting a liveable minimum wage and universal health care, which will both make it easier for poor women to have families.

What I am unapologetically not in favor of, is criminalizing medical decisions between women and their doctors.

Want to reduce abortions? Great. Lots of ways to potentially do that. Why the knee-jerk reaction is to solve "problems" by turning people into criminals, I'll never know.