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You can't have safe, legal, rare abortions? Really? To tackle this issue you have to ask why women have abortions? A little less than half of all abortions worldwide occur in countries where abortion is banned. Those countries also tend toward to be what we would call impoverished. Counties that provide free daycare, maternity leave and other things the help mothers, have much lower abortion rates than us. And even though we don't provide those, the US had been on a steady decline of abortions for 2 decades. So the safe legal and rare, was working, maybe not as fast as you desire, but it was/can work.
LifeSiteNews Mobile | U.S. abortion decline ended in 2008 with economic recession
Yeah, that's why there's almost 1.4 million per year in the U.S. It's probably even much greater than that since you can't even find reliable recent data on the subject.
Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics
Primary abortion statistics in the U.S. are available from two sources, privately from The Guttmacher Institute (AGI) and publicly from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). In 2008 (the most recent year for which CDC data is available), California, Maryland, and New Hampshire did not provide abortion reports to the federal government. Since California has not complied with CDC requests for abortion data in many years, and since California accounts for more abortions than any other state in the U.S, CDC totals are routinely incomplete. AGI, on the other hand, is the research arm of Planned Parenthood, the world's largest abortion provider. While their data is helpful, they are a much less neutral source. The following information has been gleaned from both sources to provide an overview of the frequency and demography of abortion. Additional, secondary statistics have been taken from the National Abortion Federation's (NAF) 2009 teaching text on abortion, Management of Unintended and Abnormal Pregnancy: Comprehensive Abortion Care.
This is almost a prefect non-response. You didn't really address anything in my post except to say "you can't use our stats theyre unreliable, and look at our stats, that's too much!"
When abortions are 'rare', you might have a point, until then not so much. Of course, I guess 1.2 million annually is 'rare'.
34+ years of legal and safe, and still not rare, and it never will be.