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Old 03-04-2008, 02:04 PM   #20 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Spm150 View Post
However, inevitably creating legal ramifications on an abortions will create a chain effect in which careless sex practices will not be seen as frequently. Because, all forced pregnancies asides, there are a multitude of cases in which stupid teens get knocked up and will delibrately use abortion as their own personal birth control.
There are plenty of countries (Ghana for example) which have illegal abortion that prove this statement wrong. By not educating the populace as to how to have CAREFUL sex practices you will continue to see CARELESS sex practices. Making abortion illegal will do nothing to stop this. It is education and the availability of contraception that is the key.

And "stupid teens" actually are not the majority of women out there having abortions. The number of teenage pregnancies have dropped significantly in recent years and the number of 20+ year old women hold the #1 spot for abortions in the United States (according to the last studies I had read).
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