[linda_22003]

Japan has had legal abortion since 1948; its abortion rate tends to be high, since ironically, abortion can be easier to get than contraception.

[GovernmentShrinker]

ironically, abortion can be easier to get than contraception.

Indeed, such was the case in the former Soviet Union, where various studies found that the average woman had had between 9 and 11 eleven abortions. So much for abortion causing sterility. In that case, it was simply that the government preferred to spend all its money building missiles and paying KGB agents to trail people around. Odd that Japan isn't meeting consumer demand for contraceptives.

[politicket]

Japan has had legal abortion since 1948; its abortion rate tends to be high, since ironically, abortion can be easier to get than contraception.

You are correct regarding Japan.

Japan also has shrines where women visit and leave little dolls representing the babies that were murdered. It is their only means of dealing with what they have done since Japan does not know Christ - therefore atonement for sins is non-existent.

Japan also has an extremely high suicide rate among young women. They go out into the forest and kill themselves.

[HolgerDansk]

Early term abortions are very common in Japan and have been since the end of WWII, as a result there's a large "D&C" industry there. While condoms are widely available, hormonal birth control was kept off the market until the mid 1990s by the abortion industry, which lobbied against it as "unsafe". It's still pretty rare to find a doctor who will prescribe them.

[Campion]

Japan has had legal abortion since 1948; its abortion rate tends to be high, since ironically, abortion can be easier to get than contraception.

At the rate they're going, the Japanese will abort and contracept themselves out of existence before 2200.