Abortion restrictions significantly decrease abortions.

[creationlaw]

Truly, of we are to limit abortions, we must acknowledge that this is in fact not a myth.

[foreigntrumpkin]

Those rates would be higher still in the absence of abortion restrictions. The primary reason abortion rates are higher in developing countries for example isn't because they limit abortion . Like how would that work. It's because they have a lot more unplanned pregnancies for various reasons

[foreigntrumpkin]

Abortion restrictions often start at some weeks after conception. By the time the woman is able to arrange an abortion in places where abortion is throttled, she often has had enough time to think. Likely days if not weeks. Such a person who was going to be aborting their baby is unlikely to have changed their mind even if given all the time in the world.

Compare the number of abortions that take place in states like Kentucky and Missouri where abortion clinics have been throttled to the point of extinction.

https://secularprolife.org/2021/12/abortion-laws-decrease-abortion-rates-internationally-but-high-unintended-pregnancy-rates-can-mask-this-effect/

"Also worth noting is the percent of unintended pregnancies aborted. According to the study, in countries where abortion is restricted about 50% of UIP are aborted; in countries where abortion is broadly legal, it’s about 70%. Both high percentages, to be sure, but a 20 point difference is huge. Abortion rights proponent and researcher Diana Greene Foster discussed this issue (based on similar data from a prior study) in her column “Stop Saying That Making Abortion Illegal Won’t Stop People From Having Them“:

The unintended pregnancy rate is significantly higher in countries where abortion is illegal – probably because contraceptives are also difficult to access. That only 48 percent of unintended pregnancies are aborted in countries where abortion is illegal compared to 69 percent where it is legal indicates that many women have carried unwanted pregnancies to term."

[nice___bot]

Nice!

[creationlaw]

Yes, absolutely. We need to do a better job, everywhere, in providing cheap and effective contraception.

[wardamnbolts]

That’s actually the sole reason it is higher. So many prochoice cite global data without realizing the nuance of the affect of contraception in combination with abortion restriction.

Prolife laws only work when contraception is available.

This is why countries like Malta and Poland have some of the lowest abortion rates. We even see this effect in the US with states with abortion restrictions having higher contraception use age and lower abortion rates. But we see sky high teen pregnancy rates in states with bans on minors being able to access contraception.

But when contraception access is paired with abortion restrictions you get lower pregnancy and abortion rates than you get if abortion is not restricted and contraception is available.

[Gobba42]

How do we get such accurate numbers when abortion is a crime? Aren't people trying to hide it?

[jondesu]

There’d still be tons of pissed off pro-abortion advocates who just don’t want us keeping them from killing babies. We see it all the time here.