The New California Republic wrote:Visionary Union wrote:I don't think that abortion should be restricted in any way or form, as it is the parents decision whether they want a child, or not. While dialogue is encouraged between the partners, ultimately the decision lays in the pregnant mother's hands, because she carries the fetus. However, because teenagers will be teenagers,
the *amount* of the abortions should be limited to avoid the public treating the abortion process as a free birth control.
There is no evidence to suggest that is the case. I sincerely doubt any woman would use abortion as a replacement for contraception, due to what is involved. Women
routinely using abortion as some kind of like-for-like replacement for contraception is a non-issue, so I really don't see why you are mentioning it...?
The claims that women use abortion as an alternative contraceptive are largely debunked. I thought...
Research found that women are more likely to need
more than one abortion in their lifetime if trapped in abusive relationships (where the partner may control contraceptive access or ending the pregnancy may be the only way to break the ties), or if severely economically disadvantaged.
Any limits would penalise the most vulnerable women, for no real reduction in the number of abortions, as only a tiny percentage of women have a number of abortions that might be deemed high (85 procedures of the 189,575 in the UK in 2010 were on women who had had 7 previous procedures or more).
IMO, it would be inappropriate to deny bodily autonomy to those women. It would be a mistake, too, to assume that repeated abortion happens due to a lack of contraception;
this study found that all the women -- who had had at least one, often more, previous abortions -- fell pregnant while using contraceptives.
Another factor is
age, women older than 35 are more likely to have had more than one abortion (just due to statistics).