Reply #260: But

[athena]

we don't make it difficult to get cars to prevent accidents. (It's a hundred times easier to get a gun in this country than to get an abortion, thanks to anti-choice state laws instituted in the last thirty years.)

Making it difficult for women to get abortions just kills women (read this: http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/generation/walk/wis_1_true.html).

If sex education is made adequate, if sex becomes less of a taboo subject, and if birth control is made better and more widely available, very few women will need abortions, indeed. For the few that still need them, the solution is to let them decide for themselves whether they will get an abortion, not to force them to resort to desperate measures.