Thread by @ncdave4life

@realBockmann 1/7》Nor are abortion rates as high or higher WHEN abortion is restricted.

It's just the opposite: U.S. experience proves that legalizing abortion greatly increases the number of abortions. It hardens hearts to the plight of the unborn, making abortion more socially acceptable.

@realBockmann 2/7》Over the decade following Roe v. Wade, as abortion gained acceptance, the U.S. abortion rate more than doubled. From 1972 to 1981 the number of abortions nearly tripled (586,800 → 1,577,300), and the abortion rate (per no. women of childbearing age) increased 122%.

@realBockmann 3/7》Unsurprisingly, a sharp increase in abortions & a sharp drop in birth rate immediately followed the 1973 Roe v. Wade decision. But then a strange thing happened: abortion rate continued to increase, as acceptance of abortion increased. But the birth rate increased as well.

@realBockmann 4/7》In fact, for five consecutive years the U.S. birth rate and abortion rate BOTH increased, simultaneously.

Abortion gradually became accepted, by many Americans, as a sort of backup birth control method, replacing caution and self-control.

@realBockmann 5/7》In the long term, the U.S. birth rate was only slightly reduced by legalized abortion. The pregnancy rate rose nearly as much as the abortion rate. Within a decade, the birth rate had nearly recovered to the slightly declining trend-line that it was already on.

@realBockmann 6/7》Most abortions simply replaced other forms of birth control, used for "family planning" purposes, to delay childbearing.