Convenience. Really?

I suppose that is what you might call it, when a woman finds she is pregnant and is in no position to support a child, house a child, or has children and can't afford or risk another, or, as others so sweetly suggest, give birth and give it up for adoption. As if having a child isn't a life-changing event, and at times a life-risk. It's a BIG DEAL and if a woman isn't in a position where she feels that she can safely take that risk, then legal abortion is a reasonable option.

In cultures where education and birth control information or devices aren't available to women they end up having many babies because a few will be lost due to childhood diseases or other disasters. It is as painful for those women to lose a child as it is for a woman anywhere else in the world. As women gain both education and access to birth control they have fewer babies and are more successful in raising them to adulthood. And choosing to have babies - whether through the efficient use of birth control or the judicious use of abortion - is a feature of cultures with more educated women* who want to have and raise babies in an environment where they will be most successful in raising them to adulthood.

*This does not take into account nations with population laws on the books, such as China. That's a different kettle of fish.

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