Nature's Babies Come at WillBut nature in general has a more lax attitude towards their offspring. After all you would never leave your kids in a nest.
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Nations with stronger pro-life tendencies see more abortions, many of them unsafe illegal operations that threaten the mothers' lives.
Oxymoronic?
Actually, not. Many pro-life nations also restrict contraception. And, indeed, in other nations where contraceptives weren't illegal, but were scarce for other reasons, like in the former Soviet Bloc nations until recently, abortions have been high and are decreasing as avoiding pregnancy becomes more easily achieved.
Now American right wingers want to ban the most popular and effective means of contraception, making American women and their partners into the chains of unintended pregnancy and possibly to back alley or self induced means of ending the same.
See Chart D and the following explanation at Guttmacher Institute: Abortion in Context: United States and Worldwide
