Aside from making it illegal, what are some ways to reduce the number of abortions in America?

Answer 1

Instead of making this a moral issue, get the education in our
schools out there - keeping this subject taboo is one of the
major problems.
There are plenty of ways of preventing pregnancy, the resources
are out there, they should be known & available.

Answer 2

WIthout making the practice illegal, the ONLY way to reduce the number of abortions is to enforce personal responsibility for one's actions.
Think.... when a man and a woman have sex, if a pregnancy occurs his sole choice is simply and whatever she chooses.

She may have an abortion; she may choose to give birth; if unmarried, she may state she does not know the father and put the baby up for adoption; She may choose to give birth and abandon the baby at one of the facilities that will accept the child, no questions asked. These all end both parents responsibililty; or she may keep the baby and demand the father pay her child support; she may keep the baby and fully share the child equally with it's other parent (not likely unless married and even then it's still her choice as to whether she remains married and shares the child).
The fact is that women have a minimum of four choices, three of which are unilateral decisions that affect both her and the father's involvment in the life of their child while men have no options after sex except that granted by the mother. In other words, after sex, men have no choices, women have several, at least one of which deeply involves the man for decades, if not for life.
When it is suggested that either men have the same or similar choices as women, feminists point out that men should be more careful about having sex, which is, in fact, an argument against abortion-on-demand.
If women were saddled with the same or similar options many demand for men, or if men were given similar 'outs' of becoming a parent, abortions would drop drastically.

Answer 3

Education is your first line of defense, always. Countries with a comprehensive sex education program as well as access able free and confidential clinics have the lowest abortion rate.

Abstinence is unrealistic, we cannot seriously think that people are not going to have sex when our culture is inundated with images and allusion of sex constantly.

Providing the education that allows a person to know that there is no safe time to have sex, there is no safe withdrawal method. The only way to have safe sex is with the use of one or more birth control methods and even then you are not completely out of the woods.

A network of free clinics that distribute free or low cost birth control, offer sex education classes as well as crisis intervention will decrease the numbers of abortions.

The only way to reduce them is reduce unwanted pregnancy.

As a side note, making abortions illegal will just force people into back alley clinics where not only the baby will be aborted but the mothers life will be at risk.

Answer 4

maximum folk definite. yet what's quite unhappy is that the abortion industry is a commercial employer that advocates for youthful women folk in a time of non-public disaster to make your strategies up directly to terminate. each employer has to cheer lead for human beings to apply their product. considering that abortion is so emotionally explosive with long term psychological and emotional outcomes ought to make as all quiver. So there are human beings obtainable who say, nah, do no longer do the adoption factor. you will remorseful approximately it. while actually women folk who do no longer abort and remorseful approximately their determination is very virtually unparalleled, the form of ladies who say if that they had it to do yet returned they could have stored the toddler is extremely overwhelming.

Answer 5

Educating, providing FREE condoms & other contraceptives. Really listening to the children. Teaching them early. Might want to have the media and the "stars" tone down their images. SEX is everywhere. The kids idolize the stars. There are SO many factors that contribute to when these kids make "mistakes".

Also, abortion clinics should make it a law, to check ID's of these kids. Kind of how bars do. FOR REAL. And get the families involved.

But, John, there is no way. Or it would've ALL been done before.

Answer 6

Try teaching something in sex ed other than DON'T DO IT!

The religious nut jobs have gone to great lengths to make it impossible to teach safe sex practices and contraception in the public school.

Then they throw a fit over people "fixing" the problem that could have been avoided in the first place with education.

If they don't want their own children to get an education in this subject, that is fine, they can pull their own child from the class and I can respect that personal decision concerning their own family.

But that is not good enough for the nut jobs. They have to make sure that no students get an education in safe sex practices and contraception.

It is time that the nut jobs take personal responsibility for blocking the educational resources so that people can actually have the requisite background knowledge to take personal responsibility with their sexuality and make informed decisions in regard to their actions.

After the educational deficiency is corrected, then you can look at making availability of birth control products easier and or cheaper to obtain.

Answer 7

Raise your kids with knowledge, morals and standards so they understand the risks and consequences of sex and pregnancy. Other than that dont worry about others who are having abortions. Its not our concern. Its not my job to "parent" other peoples children, just the same as i dont want them to parent my kids.
If we all teach our own kids the risks involved with a sexual lifestyle at an early age this would cut down on teen pregancy and abortions as well.

Answer 8

I'd agree with Sway people aren't using birth control even though Aids and HPV are out there infecting thousands of people. Sad really.

Answer 9

education and openness is the only ways i can think of. too many opposed to those ideas though. personal responsibility is a problem that most have problems accepting. we are a strange society in that regard.

Answer 10

Teaching more about birth control during High School and College...counsel people on safe sex after each abortion...