And yet, if you actually go and read that article, it makes it clear that these women are poor women who already have children, and WERE USING BIRTH CONTROL THE MONTH THEY GOT PREGNANT.

Clearly, they were trying to avoid getting pregnant. This suggests something else is going on.

What could that be?

1. For some women birth control loses effectiveness after they’ve become pregnant? Maybe you develop a tolerance for the kind you were already taking and switching types would fix that? Not likely, but it’s a theory worth investigating.
2. Because they’re poor and already have children who must come first, everything must be stretched out, including their birth control? For example, if an IUD is good for 6 to 8 years, they replace at 8 years instead of 6 with those last 2 years being an increased risk of failure. Again, it’s a theory worth investigating for proper address. This would be an access issue, not a responsibility issue.
3. Because money and access have become a problem, these women have turned over reproductive responsibility to their make partners out of necessity. Those partners who are using a condom (because the article stipulated that an effective method was being used) are poking holes in them or stealthing. These women are being raped and likely don’t know it.

The article further lays out that repeat abortions are only coming from 11% of abortion seekers. So your solution, rather than figuring out what’s going on with a very small demographic of people, is to punish the vast majority of women for the “sins" (in your eyes) of a few. Well done.

I’ve got some other solutions that would have actually solved the problem.

1. Offer sterilization as part of post partum care to every woman who has a child on Medicaid.
2. Censure or done doctors who refuse sterilization when women request it.
3. Increase access to birth control like Colorado did.
4. Offer grants to help with incidental costs like child care (the ones you already have), making up for lost work time, etc for when getting reproductive health care. Kind of like AFLAC, but it’s a grant.
5. Mobile health care for reproductive health so women don’t have to jump through so many hoops to get health care. Bring it to them. Maybe even eliminate the need for a visit and prescription for birth control pills. They could be OTC.
6. Investigate whether these repeat abortions are actually instances of reproductive rape and prosecute the bastards who are doing it. Up the penalties and take everything of financial value they have for the care of that kid they tried to foist on someone who can’t take care of it. Definitely allow the abortion. Make sure they go on the sex offenders registry. Maybe better yet, force them to take custody of said children. Then at least they’ll be too busy to do it again.

You’re no where near as unbiased as you think you are. It’s telling that your first and automatic go to for a problem a small number of women are experiencing is to punish all women rather than even read the article you use to justify your position or do some research into the situation. It’s telling that your solution WILL kill women and will not address the problem of repeat abortions at hand; and that’s apparently okay and acceptable to you. I’m sure you sooth any moral qualms you may have over that with the thought that it’s necessary collateral damage to save babies. Guess you’re okay with orphaning children too because suicide rates are going to go up as well as abandonments.

You’ve just forced so many more women into exactly the same desperate situation as that 11% of repeat abortion seekers. Congratulations. Well done. You’ve both failed and exasperated a problem with higher cost than actually solving the problem would have cost.

Because women should be “responsible".

But the society that woman lives in shouldn’t be responsible?

Hmm. Okay. I see you. Your bias and internalized misogyny are showing.