Roughly 60 percent of women who get abortions have one or more children already, and many women plan to have children later, once they are ready.

Unfortunately, the forced-birth crowd largely isn’t interested.

Since poverty or lack of resources for existing children motivate a large share of abortions, the best “prevention” would be robust economic, social and educational assistance for pregnant women.

The study documents that the vast majority of women have already considered their decision.

Waiting periods mostly create only later-term abortions.

Also, some 95 percent of women who had abortions are glad they did. Much greater harm to women’s physical health, family situation, economic condition and life trajectory comes from being denied an abortion.

Forced-birth activists’ insistence that abortions are dangerous and/or harmful to women is utterly false.

How can women seek an early abortion if they don’t know they’re pregnant? Difficulty finding a provider also pushes abortions later - and bans and restrictions often add to delays by forcing women to plan travel out of state.

Time limits on abortion are not effective in preventing already rare “late term” abortions the primary cause for delaying until the second trimester is late discovery of pregnancy (usually in young women with no pregnancy symptoms and irregular periods).

Less than 10 percent of women consider adoption, blowing a hole in antiabortion advocates’ notion of that option as an obvious, simple solution.

Utterly barbaric