I'm addressing the suggestion that an abortion isn't private when other people observe that a woman is no longer pregnant. > Nor is abortion necessarily privat

I'm addressing the suggestion that an abortion isn't private when other people observe that a woman is no longer pregnant. > Nor is abortion necessarily private [...] or one could be visibly pregnant and then get an abortion. You wouldn't know that person had an abortion unless they told you. But then you might as well simply say "An abortion isn't private if the woman tells everyone she had one", which is the same as "one could declare one is going to have one" so I think that's not what was meant.