As birth control use has increased, so has extra-marital sex, and so have abortion rates, whilst birth rates have dropped. This will naturally lead to more accidental pregnancies. If you are on brith control, and feel you have taken appropriate steps to prevent pregnancy, but still become pregnant, you are going to feel more validated in your decision to choose an abortion. Abortion could be termed 'late stage birth control', since it stops birth of a living child. Equally, some forms of contraceptions such as some pills and IUDS are themselves abortive in their ability to prevent implantation of a fertilised egg. If you make extra-marital sex less appealing by the removal of easy access to contraceptives, abortion rates will decrease as less people will likely be having extra-marital sex. Marriage is the place for sex as it creates an environment in which to raise children, and the natural telos of sex is pregnancy. Removing the telos of sex from it is a misapplication of sex. No one has a right to sex, and no one has a right to contraception. Chastity is possible.
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