Between the positions at either end of the spectrum, there is a range of ethical, political and medical debate about how
easy access to abortion should be, which interests and factors should prevail over others, and how late terminations may be carried out.
Has
the easy access to abortion clinics compromised conscience formation?
This is basic common sense, and is fine as far as it goes, but it does not explain why pro-life advocates would struggle against
easy access to abortion when they are not being personally oppressed by it, or why some men would hold pro-choice views when they can not become pregnant.
The response of the last government was essentially more of the same: earlier and more detailed sex education, family planning clinics in schools, promotion of emergency birth control (otherwise known as the «morning after pill»)
easier access to abortion, all without the need for parental consent even in the case of underage girls.
Not exact matches
All this changed when the sexual revolution and the rise of feminism ushered in
easy divorce, the expectation of a career outside the home for married women, ready
access to contraception and
abortion, and the gay - rights movement.
When
abortion is made
easier to access, e.g. by assuring youngsters that their parents need never know, we would predict more youngsters
to engage in risky sexual activity.
This is very important because, although the remit of the Teenage Pregnancy Unit is
to cut pregnancy rates, one of its main policy recommendations that it emphasises year after year is
to provide youngsters with
easier and better
access to confidential
abortion.
Our research is backed up by all the other academic papers which examine the impact of
easier access to EBC on unwanted pregnancy or
abortion rates.
For Dr. Daniel Grossman, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at the University of California at San Francisco and director of Advancing New Standards in Reproductive Health, if lawmakers want
to curb
abortion at a later stage, they should make it
easier for women
to access care in the early stages of the pregnancy.