Do abortion rates increase or decrease when abortions are legalized?
The abortion rate remains essentially the same when abortions are legal or illegal in a country. The way to reduce abortion rates in different countries is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies. The only way to do this is to educate women on the benefits and risks of long term contraceptive methods and when they fail, to be able to use Emergency Contraception (morning after pill, day after pill, post coital contraception, day after contraception, plan b) when the primary form of contraception fails, or the patient was forced to have intercourse unprotected, or the patient does not use contraception because the patient feels that she is too young or too old to get pregnant.
