Pregnancy is seen by an increasing number of women as an unwanted consequence that they are not prepared to adapt to. The fact that more women are delaying starting a family until they are in their thirties, that many are deciding to opt out of parenthood altogether, suggests increased numbers of sexually active women who do not want a child. A relatively high abortion rate is not necessarily a sign of the failure of sex education and family planning programmes. It may be a symptom of a society where women wish to combine a sex life with ambition. Of course it is preferable for unwanted pregnancies to be prevented rather than ended.
Abortion is safe, but contraception is safer and more convenient.
Nevertheless, today abortion is an essential method of family planning and should be accepted it as such. Efficacy of different contraceptive methods. Abortion Law and Politics Today .