It is a woman's decision what to do with her own body. It really is the simple. Nobody is forcing rightys to have abortions, although they do. Catholics have abortions.
You do not end abortion, you drive it underground where is is more expensive and more dangerous.
We had abortion declared illegal many years ago. It was a terrible time. Teens, and adult women went for back alley abortions. They were expensive and dangerous. Desperate women and their escorts were beaten and robbed. Sometimes raped and killed. The procedures themselves were botched and they wound up in ERs and hospitals. Some died and suffered serious damage.
It was a huge topic of conversation. Books and movies were made with it as a theme. It was never about the good ending abortion did, because it didn't.
Stopping legal abortion did not end it, but created larger and more serious problems that infected society.
Girls tried self abortion with bad results. They did serious damage to them selves in a desperate attempt to end it.
Desperadoes?
TEXT 1.40
adharmabhibhavat krsna
pradusyanti kula-striyah
strisu dustasu varsneya
jayate varna-sankarah
SYNONYMS
adharma—irreligion; abhibhavat—having been predominant; krsna—O Krsna;
pradusyanti—become polluted; kula-striyah—family ladies; strisu —of the womanhood;
dustasu—being so polluted; varsneya—O descendant of Vrsni;
jayate—it so becomes; varna-sankarah—unwanted progeny.
TRANSLATION by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
When irreligion is prominent in the family, O Krsna, the women of the family become corrupt,
and from the degradation of womanhood, O descendant of Vrsni, comes unwanted progeny.
PURPORT by A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami
Good population in human society is the basic principle for peace, prosperity and spiritual progress in life.
The varnasrama religion's principles were so designed that the good population would prevail in society
for the general spiritual progress of state and community. Such population depends on the chastity and
faithfulness of its womanhood. As children are very prone to be misled, women are similarly very prone
to degradation. Therefore, both children and women require protection by the elder members of the family.
By being engaged in various religious practices, women will not be misled into adultery.
According to Canakya Pandit, women are generally not very intelligent and therefore not trustworthy.
So, the different family traditions of religious activities should always engage them, and thus their
chastity and devotion will give birth to a good population eligible for participating in the varnasrama system.
On the failure of such varnasrama-dharma, naturally the women become free to act and mix with men,
and thus adultery is indulged in at the risk of unwanted population. Irresponsible men also provoke adultery
in society, and thus unwanted children flood the human race at the risk of war and pestilence.