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In reply to the discussion: Abortion should NOT be rare. [View all]pnwmom
(108,955 posts)Just like tooth extractions should, ideally, be rare. And cancer, ideally, should be rare.
Since the vast majority of women would prefer not to have gotten pregnant in the first place over having an abortion, (just as they would prefer not to have an infected tooth pulled, though usually with much more fraught emotions), I think abortions should be rare -- because most women, given their druthers, would rather never have found themselves in the midst of a pregnancy that needed to end. I also we should make reliable contraception freely available to women (and men) so they don't end up starting a pregnancy that they will then have to finish. In other words, the vast majority of women, going through the vast majority of pregnancies, would prefer to have stopped an unfortunate pregnancy (either an accidental pregnancy, a forced pregnancy, or a wanted pregnancy with a fetal or maternal health concern) before it even began.
OTOH, whenever a woman, for whatever reason, decide to discontinue a pregnancy, than that woman has a 100% right to end her pregnancy. For a woman who wants an abortion, it should never be rare for her to be allowed to get one -- she should always, 100% of the time, be able to make that choice by herself.