[RajT88]

Not really. Most abortions are women who already have children. Once upon a time, this meant that most abortions were carried out by married women (marriage itself is less common now).

The connection between marriage and abortion isn't what you think it is.

[monlockandkey]

https://www.statista.com/statistics/656516/abortion-distribu...

77% of abortions done by people who are not married and 46% done by women who are not married and not even cohabiting.

Abortion is a symptom of a problem which is the lack of marriage and the highly promiscuous lifestyle that is sold to us. Married people when there is a child on the way (planned or unplanned), there is little to no reason to get an abortion. Sleeping around lifestyle, of course the first thing that happens when pregnant, abortion...

[chowells]

Abortion is a symptom of preventing conception being too much hassle. Nothing more, nothing less.

And you realize that people of every age group are having less sex than any time in the last 30 years, right? It's almost like this "promiscuous lifestyle" you're so terrified of doesn't exist.

[RajT88]

Not to mention a host of societal factors leading to more autonomy for women which in turn leads to (you guessed it) sex outside of marriage.

To make more women married, we would have to roll back the clock on all those hard won freedoms. Let's not do that, let's maybe just make birth control more accessible, effective and affordable. Boom! Abortion problem solved.

The person I was responding to initially clearly does not want to solve abortion this way.