Abortion; Making Abortion Obsolete by Reducing Unplanned Pregnancy. Around 1.06 million abortions are performed annually in the U.S., with a total of 58,586,256 abortions since the Supreme Court legalized abortion in 1973 (Abortion Statistics 1).
Whether you view abortion as a morality issue or a financial issue, most people will agree that fewer abortions would be a good thing. All throughout history, outlawing products and services has never solved anything, in fact, it usually had the opposite effect, like the 1920s probation on alcohol for example, outlawing abortion won’t reduce the demand, it will only make it more difficult for those who need it. The people who are against abortion, commonly referred to as “pro-lifers,” are fighting to make abortion illegal because they feel it is morally wrong; however, I don’t believe outlawing abortion is the right way to go about it, as it doesn’t solve the heart of the issue, which is unplanned pregnancy. “…Almost half of all pregnancies in the U.S. were unplanned in 2001. Of these three million unplanned pregnancies, ∼1.4 million resulted in live births, ∼1.3 million ended in abortion, and over 400,000 ended in a miscarriage” (Stranger-Hall and Hall). With millions of
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In most schools, they focus on “abstinence only until marriage,” and while teaching abstinence is good, it’s rarely effective by itself. “After accounting for other factors, the national data show that the incidence of teenage pregnancies and births remain positively correlated with the degree of abstinence education across states: The more strongly abstinence is emphasized in state laws and policies, the higher the average teenage pregnancy and birth rate” (Stranger-Hall and