Pro Life Answers

PRO-CHOICE ARGUMENT: Part III
"Even if abortion were made illegal, there would still be many abortions.

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PRO-LIFE ANSWER:
History shows that laws concerning abortion have significantly influenced whether women choose to have abortions.



There were abortions in this country before abortion was legal, but the number skyrocketed once it was legalized. There are now fifteen times more abortions annually in this country than there were the year prior to Roe. vs. Wade. The laws that once restrained abortion now encourage it.



A change in abortion laws, from restrictive to permissive, appears-- from all data and in every country--to bring forward a whole class of women who would otherwise not have wanted an abortion or felt the need for one....
Women can be conditioned (and are in many places) to want and feel the need for abortions. Evidence from those countries where abortion-on-request has been long available (Russia, Japan,Hungary, for instance) shows that the subjectively felt stress that leads women to seek an abortion is socially influenced.



In one survey of women who had abortions, 72% said they would definately not have sought abortion if doing so were illegal. Though making abortion illegal again would not stop all abortions, it would encourage the larger number of women to persue available alternatives.