Think of your own pregnancies. But now look at your children. For almost all of you, a pregnancy that was truly unwanted has resulted in a dearly loved and wanted son or daughter. If we permit abortion for an unwanted pregnancy, we will be destroying vast numbers of children who, by the time of their birth and through their childhood, would have been very dearly wanted and deeply loved children indeed. If the judgment of being wanted at an early stage of pregnancy were a final judgment, and abortions were permitted freely, a high percentage of everyone reading this book would never have been born.
Some claims are clearly ridiculous.
TIME Magazine claimed there were at least 6 million unwanted pregnancies in the U.S. each year. In that year there were 4 million births, about 1.6 million abortions, plus about 400,000 miscarriages. According to TIME's claim, every pregnancy that year was unwanted. Not many recent ones because now abortion is legal in most developed nations which are the ones that do such studies. Back in the '50s and '60s, there were a good dozen well done studies which were reported in detail in your author's editions of Handbook on Abortion in the '70s.