what we miss in the abortion debate and should be emphasized when we talk about it.

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16. One other really important we need to make over and over again

is that if Planned Parenthood is properly funded and women (and men) receive proper comprehensive sex education and access to contraception, it will drastically reduce the need for abortions. Anti-choicers and their Republican benefactors basically keep boxing people in. They continually cut and/or withhold funding of Planned Parenthood, they demand unscientific "abstinence-only" education in schools, don't want teenagers to have access to contraception (and some of them even don't want it for adults either and sometimes even purposely conflate it with abortion), which result in more unplanned and unwanted pregnancies which they do everything possible to encourage pregnant people to carry those pregnancies to term BUT then they also fight against increased assistance for childcare, public assistance, etc., basically anything that would help alleviate the burden of caring for an unplanned child, forcing poverty onto people. All of this not even to mention the health risks of carrying a pregnancy to term, especially among teenagers, nor pregnancies that result from rape or incest. Republicans and right-wingers are just the worst.