[Tell It Right]

Hardship case abortions (birth defect, rape, life of mother) represent a teeny tiny portion. Decades ago both Planned Parenthood and Right to Life said it was less than 1. Obviously PP was saying it like "see? everybody gets abortions even for no reason, you can too", while RTL said it like "How horrible abortion is when it's really a matter of convenience, not the life trauma situations the Dims say it is".

I don't know about you, but I don't like a policy of aborting 60+ million babies in my lifetime because of supposedly legitimate 60,000 abortions. The other 59+ million were aborted over just convenience. And even with the "legitimate" abortions, the baby didn't rape the mama but the baby is the only one getting the death penalty for it. Maybe the baby ought to get a no bail release.

[Blueflag]

In my heart and soul, I agree with you. Adoption is always an option, or at worst foster care.

Another poster mentioned real issue like ectopic pregnancies. I get it.

It should NOT, EVER, be simply for convenience.

[gleeaikin]

Your quoted figure of less than 1% abortions for birth defect, rape, life of mother is wrong. Eptopic preganancies are from 1 to 2% of life threatening events. This does not even cover all the other reasonable needs for abortion. The link below gives details of many specific kinds of problems. I looked for statistics on various reasons for abortion. I did not find any specific lists, but from what I saw, I think your abortion statistics are for the world, not the US.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2022/07/16/abortion-miscarriage-ectopic-pregnancy-care/