Kate Cardinale is right about one thing. Abortions are extremely common in the United States.
They happen more often than tonsillectomies or wisdom teeth removals, and more than one out of three women will have an abortion by the time she reaches the age of 45. It is people like Cardinale, however, who force women to keep their medical procedures a secret, preventing society from realizing how common the procedure is and how many women have been affected by it. The women who have abortions are not some group "over there." They are your mothers, your sisters and your friends.
If "pro-life" activists were truly concerned about women, they would stop intimidating women as they go into doctors' offices and immediately start advocating for comprehensive sex education and improved access to birth control. That is what will reduce the number of unintended pregnancies, not displays aimed at shaming millions of women for taking advantage of a safe, legal medical procedure.
