He suggested fewer abortions would be the result, though.
It doesn’t though:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9253669/
There’s plenty of research on this. You’re just advocating more unsafe abortions.
Incidentally, the people who are doing the lord’s work in this have also been blocking the abortion of ectopic pregnancies, where a fertilized egg gets stuck in a falopian tube. That egg can never become a human, and will only kill the mother.
You’re in with some terrible bedfellows here.
Seems like a bit of a backwards reasoning? Having access to abortion reduces abortion seems to be a disingenuous way to look at it.
I read some of those papers, the comparison is a bit ill intentioned I think, most of the cases they cite are abortion rates in developing countries which are of course much more poor and have lack of access to contraceptive methods compared to the more well developed and liberal countries where it has legal status(not to add the addition home abortions which are not captured in the census , and simply the fall of pregnancy rates), and from what infound on the internet , us seemed to have a much lower abortion rate before enactment of row v wade than after it(its arguable how many unrecognized abortions gone under the radar but there definitely was an increase in the first few years of its enactment than a continuous decline much more in line with dropping birth rates and an increase financial well being)
It seems that providing contraceptive methods to the populace , education and of course improvement of their financial situation does a lot more to reduce it than legalizing it.
I'm continually disturbed by the lackadaisical approach that has been Instilled in the newer generations regarding abortion , seeing it simply as another contraceptive method to use indiscriminately , an action which i find to be inherently immoral , i doubt having legalized it for this many years would have done anything good to revert that mentality.
As I said im not against abortions when the mother's life is in danger , them being associated to my cause does not make it any less legitimate, going down that road i could point out to how abortion has such unsavory origins in its current format as a measure of eugenics and planned parenthood being originally intentioned that way, in fact to this day the black populace has much higher abortion rates which suggests their financial situation does another more to induce such decisions.
One last thing is that we could talk extenuating and special cases such as rape and mother's life being in danger all we want but that doesn't change the fact that most abortions are simply taken out of convenience (a big big majority of it), while I sympathize a lot with poor people with the lack of education who it happens to them despite their intentions i can't spare any sympathy to say a well off white woman who simply got pregnant due to being careless and her decadent life style and looking at abortion to escape responsibility, we live in a time and age were any half responsible and well educated person has no excuse when it happens to them due to their own lack of discretion.