If the birth control pill did so much, there wouldn’t be so many abortions.
Not so. It's counterintuitive, but drilling down into the statistics shows widespread contraception precedes widespread abortion. Historically true,in almost every instance except USSR.
Also historically true: abortions, out-out-wedlock childbirth, and rapid spread of STD's go up whenever a new group becomes contraceptive "acceptors". Yes, contraception and out-of-wedlock pregnancies--- leading to nonmarital births AND abortions --- go up in tandem. Doesn't seem like it would be so, but so it is.
One can speculate about the reasons why--- ask me! I got an opinion! --- but you can't dispute that that's what happens.
When Patrick Moynihan wrote "The Negro Family: the Case for National Action" ("Moynihan Report," 1965) the out-of-wedlock birth rate for Black Americans was 25% --- much higher than for whites --- and he argued convincingly that this was causing the disintegration of the Black community on a catastrophic scale.
Fifty-plus years and an avalanche of condoms, jellies, jams, barriers, sprays, and 100 million cycles of OC's later--- and behold the progress: out-of-wedlock childbearing the white community is 1 out of 3, in the Latino community, 2 out of 3, in the Black community 4 out of 5.
Of course there are other causal factors, but none so statistically linked as the prevalence of the contraceptive mentality, which first means sex is de-linked (in people's minds) from pregnancy, and then, massively, means men are not linked to women, nor to their own children. ("That's her problem.")
Don't think I haven't heard that here at FR.