Contraception leads to abortion, only if we allow the perception to persist that abortion is a form of contraception, as in the old shell game/obfuscatory game of abortion is birth control, contraception is birth control, therefore abortion must just be a form of preventing a new life to come into existence. In actuality, at conception a new individual human life begins and pregnancy is life support for an already existing individual human life. Contraception is the prevention of a new human life coming into existence; abortion is termination of an individual human life already existing and on life support not by that individual's own choosing but by the actions of two other individual human beings willingly or unwittingly.
I will proffer that to radically reduce abortion (to make it what the liar-in-chief once called legal and rare, or some such double-speak as that) requires an awakening of the people's understanding regarding the nature of pregnancy. Pregnancy is life support, support of a new individual life already in existence in need of support to continue, not in need of support to come into existence. That may seem simplistic to state such a thing, but that is the true nature of the confusion and dissonance orchestrated by the despotic democrat party and those in the pubby party who wish to avoid speaking truthfully as to how they perceive abortion, choice, and life. It is time to stop playing obfuscatory games and call the 'thing' what it is: pregnancy is life support and terminating pregnancy is killing an already existing individual human life. Is it enlightened social policy to champion killing of existing individual human lives as if 'for the betterment of society as a whole and the individual family in particular' ... or would it be more enelightened to adjust our way of dealing with nascient individual human life, giving support all along the continuum of individual life from implantation (I would ask for 'from contraception to') to grave? This is the defining issue of the human race, fellow Freepers. This issue will not resolve itself, we will have to speak out to change the environment around life support.
Simple, elegant truth. Beautifully stated.