A couple points, since you aren't being a phony like Mac.
I think pro-choicers invoking of Rape and Incest (probably less than 1% of abortions performed) is about as disingenous as pro-lifers invoking third trimester abortions (also less than 1% of all abortions performed.)
I will even stipulate, the vast majority of abortions performed are performed on women who consented to the sex act, but didn't want to be pregnant, and most of them are performed long before the fetus is viable or anyone in that woman's life would even know she was pregnant.
Now, all of that said, yes, it would be nice if we had less abortions. I'm sure it's never an easy decision. Of course, the way you get there is not to ban it. The Philippines bans abortions, and they have more abortions than we do per capita.
The way you get to less abortions is better sex education, universal health care, and family and medical leave and a strong social welfare state. This is what most of those evil commie socialist Europeans do, and they have half as many abortions per capita than us God-loving Americans.
But not having a uterus, I don't have a dog in this fight, and I refuse to let religious nutters put crazy people in office who end up making my life more difficult.
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What percentage of Abortions are performed when there is a Beating Heart?...
As for Socialism/Communism being the Remedy for Abortion... Let me know how that's working in the Former Soviet and China.
WHO/Europe | Facts and figures about abortion in the European Region
Europe's rates don't look bad, I will give you that...
But in America the MOST Liberal/Progressive pro-Universal Healthcare States have the Highest Abortion Rates:
Facts About Abortion: U.S. Abortion Statistics
In 2011, the highest number of reported abortions occurred in California (181,730), New York (138,370) and Florida (84,990); the fewest occurred in Wyoming (120), South Dakota (600) and North Dakota (1,250) (AGI).
The 2011 abortion rates by state ranged from a low of 3.8 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in Mississippi (Wyoming had too few abortions for reliable tabulation) to a high of 28.6 abortions per 1,000 women aged 15-44 in New York (AGI).
Our Conservative States make the EU's Abortion Rates look Horrific.
New York Dominates in Liberal Policies and Access to Healthcare/Women's Health etc and they have an Absurdly HIGH Abortion Rate.
Abortion happens WAY more in Liberal/Progressive States and in that the Cities like NY than they do in Conservative areas.
And even with all of the Baby Killing, the Rate of Dependency on the System to Single Mothers etc is still Dominately in those same areas.
Explain that to me.
peace...