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Originally Posted by Rebellion
Sure it does, if you're about to have sex and don't have birth control you don't worry if there is an abortion option. And your stats don't say that those using it other than an emergency is tiny. It refers to repeat abortions, which as a pure number is not tiny.
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I seriously doubt a significant portion of people think that way. I know I didn't, when I was young. The availability of abortion wasn't really a factor in my decisions about whom to sleep with, and when.
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Which proves my point, that if you limited abortion then you would have fewer abortions and more people acting responsibly.
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You've managed to turn this around. My point was that banning abortion would result in a huge increase in live births, swamping the number of available adoptive families.
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Which is exactly what I said before, that your numbers are skewed because if abortion were illegal you would have fewer people seeking them and getting unwanted pregnancies. And of course some of those pregnant would end up keeping their babies.
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I'll agree that banning abortion would result in fewer unplanned pregnancies. My point is that the numbers are so out of whack -- abortions outpace adoption by an order of magnitude -- that you'd have to believe that banning abortion would *drastically* reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies in order for the numbers to balance.
I just don't believe that banning abortion will reduce unplanned pregnancies from 1.2 million a year to 120,000 a year.