I repeat what I wrote before, with a reference link:
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_0599.html
Statistics show that in countries where contraception is easily obtainable, the abortion rate is 33% that of the U.S.
But when pro-choicers say that easier access to contraception and realistic biological sex education will eliminate abortions, the pro-lifers say, "our way or no way."
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/ib_0599.html
Yet, while it may seem paradoxical, a country's abortion rate is not closely correlated with whether abortion is legal there. For example, abortion levels are quite high in Latin American countries, where abortion is highly restricted. (In fact, 20 million of the 46 million abortions performed annually worldwide occur in countries with highly restrictive abortion laws.) At the same time, abortion rates are quite low throughout Western Europe, where the procedure is legal and widely available. Also, Eastern and Western Europe have the world's highest and lowest abortion rates, respectively, yet abortion is generally legal throughout the Continent.
If legality is not the determining factor, what drives the rates at which abortions occur in a given country? Clearly, a key factor is the rate at which women experience unintended pregnanciesitself a function of the interplay between a couple's family-size (and timing) goals and their contraceptive use.
Abortion levels are high in countries where the desire for small families is strong but contraceptive use is low or ineffective.
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