Abortion is often advocated by males involved in incestuous relationships. Reading the literature on incest is like treading through a sewer. It is full of cases in which the male offender starts using the girl when she is as young as seven or eight and continues the relationship until she runs away, marries, complains to legal authorities, or becomes pregnant. The German cases are from Herbert Maisch, Incest , trans. Obtaining an abortion for the girl and returning her to the same environment does not address, much less solve, the primary problem.
Few pregnancies result from incestuous relationships.
However, if the incestuous relationship is not ended and the individuals provided adequate treatment, many victims end up being very promiscuous, resulting in higher ratios of pregnancy. One might conclude that Planned Parenthood's favouring abortion as an option would result in the abortion of most incestuous pregnancies, but this has not proven true. In the Washington state incest program, where the director is also on the board of directors of Planned Parenthood, and refers all clients to Planned Parenthood facilities, there are fewer abortions than live births. A surprising finding to Director Peter Coleman is the relatively low frequency of pregnancies among incestuous daughters he knows are sexually active. Even more significant is the fact that there have been no pregnancies from incest per se.