Are they "so common"? Citation needed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy#Epidemiology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy#Epide

Are they "so common"? Citation needed! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy#Epidemiology https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unintended_pregnancy#Epidemiol... Unintended pregnancies (UPs) per 1000 women ages 15–44 years old by year and region: - 1990-1994: 66 European average vs. 50 in North America - 2010-2014: 41 European average vs. 47 in North America Specific countries report numbers differently: - Britain 2013 "16% of British pregnancies are unplanned, 29% are ambivalent, and are 55% planned" - France 2008 "33% of pregnancies are unintended" - Sweden 2013 "12% of pregnancies were fairly or very unplanned" - USA "slightly less than half (45%) of U.S. pregnancies in 2011 were unintended". Of course, UPs are not the same as abortions. Many abortions are due to an UP (USA: "Over 92% of abortions are the result of unintended pregnancy"), but not all UPs result in abortions (USA: "In 2001, 44% of unintended pregnancies resulted in births, 42% resulted in induced abortion, and the rest in miscarriage."). Looking just at abortions, Estonia has the fourth-highest* rate with 33.3 whereas Belgium has the lowest at 7.3. Europe is all over the place (and it's not as if abortions are illegal or deemed immoral in Belgium, quite the opposite). USA is at 20.8. These figures are per 1000 women from https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-rates-by-country https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/abortion-... So are abortions "so common"? Dunno, it seems quite high when looking at a the area I'm from (max(NL/BE/DE)=10) but it's also not through the roof. * Most countries don't have a known value for abortions though, like most of Africa/Latam/Southeast Asia and all of South America, so take "fourth highest" with a huge grain of salt.