less abortions is an economic factor, Europe is better economical than the US, in fact its the reason why I am an independent, when it comes to economics, i differ from conservatives(as well as Israel)
I think it is a great thing that they dont encourage abortions in the Netherlands, the biggest crime you can do to a women is telling them that killing babies is liberating and that it is better than adoption or other means
More people forced into the US is what you claim to aspire too. Because that is what will happen if you ban abortion. Poverty, people working until almost the grave, homelessness, no health care for a lot of people, people working 3 jobs, that will all get much much much worse if you would have added 100 million extra people to the US by 2020.
Except nobody is telling women that aborting ZEF's is liberating (because again, KILLING BABIES is a CRIME), women are smart enough to make their own decisions but when you are forced to make an existential choice for you and your family, the way the US has been the enemy of what most European countries call societal support and Americans call communism. Sorry, but the way the US works it is encouraging abortions as a need to survive. Which is a tragedy but it would not happen as much if children were getting proper sex education, girls as young as 16 could go to their family doctor and ask for the pill, condoms were the norm among young people and affordable birth control would be available to all women.
If you look at the nasty comments that were directed as the lady who said she was in favor of birth control as part of health care packages, Sandra Fluke I think he name was, she was called a slut for supporting birth control.
Some people in the US are so paranoid about not telling their kids about sex that young underaged teens get pregnant way way way way more than in countries like the Netherlands were children/young teens get informed about the risks and about protecting yourself from pregnancy. And then finding it strange that women who are 23 or so and already have 3 or 4 kids would choose to have abortions rather than raising another child they can hardly afford.
If like in the Netherlands women would get children aged 25 for the first time, abortions would take a nosedive, and how do we achieve that? BIRTH CONTROL and SEX EDUCATION, respecting children to grow up more independent and make their own choices. It is what I stated before, OVER parenting can do way more damage than normal parenting. My nephews both stopped school at a very young age, even though they were harassed by their mother who was a hawk about homework, forcing them to sit in front of her making their homework. They got sick of school and sick of learning, they were browbeaten into hating school. On the other hand my mother trusted me to make my homework. She asked me and when I said I made it (even if I hadn't) she would accept it and would have me suffer the consequences if I got low grades or extra homework from my teachers. And it taught me to take responsibility, I had fun in learning and went to way higher schools than my oppressed nephews.
If you want children to not have sex, educate them. If you want them to get pregnant as 15 year old children, don't give them proper sex education. But then do not complain when later on in life those girls, who never got to learn being sexually responsible for preventing pregnancies, are semi-forced to have abortions. Because that is the cost of doing business the American way.