It is important to consider factual abortion statistics for the pro abortion and pro life arguments.
Abortion fact: there are a startling 42 million abortions worldwide every year. Over a lifetime, that totals about 1 abortion for every woman on the planet, and in fact, nearly 1 in 2 women worldwide will have an abortion in their lifetime. I dont care if youre pro-life or pro-choice, these numbers are sobering. And lets get real for a minute. Whether there are laws prohibiting abortion or not, there are going to be abortions.
Abortion fact: about 20 million women each year obtain abortions in countries where the practice is either illegal or restricted. Abortion is our reality.
I cant really debate whether abortions should be legal under the "do the right thing" lens. That there are strong pro choice and pro life arguments in the abortion debate is not the point. The problem with the abortion debate is that it is about beliefs. Pro lifers
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[5] Teenage girls are sexually active for seven or eight years on average before marriage. Indeed, premarital sex has become something of a misnomer. Sex is increasingly detached from the promise or expectation of marriage."
Another study finds that about 7% of men and 20% of women are virgins when they marry.
What we can change is the consequences. And that starts with sex education. You need to educate kids at a young age - starting at about 12 - about sex, their urges, the process and the disastrous CONSEQUENCES of unprotected sex. We need to have real, frank conversations about this. And it doesnt start and end with a single day in a 7th grade health class (as it did with me). This needs to be an ongoing, re-inforced message delivered over and over by schools, parents, public service announcements, etc, etc, etc. Its about building a culture of awareness that if youre going to have sex, you BETTER have protected