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In reply to the discussion: Abortion should NOT be rare. [View all]pnwmom
(108,978 posts)You were saying in the OP that abortions should not be rare -- period. What are you saying? That abortions should be common? That's an entirely different thing than to say they should be easily accessible and affordable.
I was saying that abortions should be rare because the vast majority of women would prefer not getting pregnant in the first place to having to go through an abortion. In an ideal world, there would be no unplanned or complicated or distressful pregnancies and abortions would be rare -- because an abortion isn't like a sneeze. It's a significant procedure that no one wants to go through if they could have avoided the pregnancy (or pregnancy complications) in the first place.
But if a woman wants an abortion, it should never be rare for her to be allowed to get one. We do agree on that.