Vast legions of women undergo abortions merely for the sake of convenience or economics, and use abortion clinics like backup contraceptive devices.
And women can get all the proper prenatal care they want regardless of economic status.
Oh... by the way... "prenatal care" is not the same thing as "abortion".
Prenatal care encompasses the health and well-being of both mother and child... it is not dedicated to slaughtering the children by crushing their skulls.
There are fewer than 1 million abortions in the USA every year. 80% are women living at or just above the poverty line. 60% of the women are married or in a committed relationship and have one or more children already.
There is a tremendous shortage of prenatal care for women of all social levels throughout the United States. Fewer and fewer doctors are taking up obstetrics and gynaecology as a specialty.
The costs of malpractice insurance are the highest in the medical profession. And with states passing laws outlawing, proper prenatal care for pregnant women few doctors want to stay in the field.
Hospitals are closing gynaecological units and maternity wings, because they don’t want to take the legal risk of dealing with the abortion laws and making decisions about what constitutes legal care.
Even when doctors are willing to perform the surgeries, women need, hospital boards, are vetoing the use of their facilities for fear of be legal consequences. And with women, more and more willing to file suit against those who refuse them care, and have a bad outcome, fewer and fewer hospitals, are going to want to deal with pregnant women at all
You continue to spout the lies and misinformation being promoted by the anti-abortion right on who and why women are getting abortions.
The women who get abortions are not young, promiscuous, and uncaring. The women who are getting abortions are low income wives and mothers whose birth control failed and who can’t afford another child.
This isn’t selfishness, nor greed. With no maternity leave or job security while they’re pregnant, these women can I’ll afford to be fired.
Canada has free abortion on demand for nine months and yet our abortion rate is half what yours is. That’s because we have universal healthcare, paid maternity and family leave, and job security for pregnant women, plus a $500 per month per child tax benefit for low income women. You cannot fire a pregnant woman in Canada.
Cutting the abortion rate, has nothing to do with “saving innocent lives”. It’s about controlling women because you can.
As always with Republicans, the cruelty is a feature, not a bug.