No, abortion is not a form of regular family planning used to space out children, no matter what abortion advocates say.
Yes, it’s a favorite talking point of the Planned Parenthood crowd. As the Washington Free Beacon reported Saturday, the American Public Health Association views child spacing as one of the reasons why we need federal funding of abortion.
“APHA considers the availability of safe, legal, and affordable abortion care to be essential for safeguarding maternal health, reducing maternal mortality and morbidity, and enabling healthy spacing of pregnancies,” the organization has said.
Rewire News Group, a pro-abortion website, also made the counterintuitive argument that abortion can make having children easier in a series of articles that would be rollicking inadvertent hilarity if the argument didn’t involve the butchering of innocent human life.
