Fool-proof contraception (IUDs and implants) reduces abortion.
“The birthrate among teenagers across the state plunged by 40 percent from 2009 to 2013, while their rate of abortions fell by 42 percent, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment. “
These contraceptives may cause an early embryo to be unable to implant, but I can’t find out at what rate - not sure there are any clear studies. And it does not harden the heart the way aborting a known pregnancy does.
They are not what I would want for myself or my daughters.
I give anesthesia for a living. The hospital system I work for has a very busy women’s hospital. I don’t usually work at that particular one, but a few years back, they were short staffed and I was sent to work there. As a Catholic, I would not participate in the latterm abortions that they would do, however, I personally had two cases where we removed IUDs and there was an undeveloped, obviously dead, baby attached.
Those things are just as evil as a surgical abortion. People just feel better about them because they can’t see it happening, but the outcome is the same.