The promises of legal abortion didn't come true

Before and soon after Roe v. Wade made abortion legal through all nine months of pregnancy, abortion advocates promised that legal abortion would improve.  They believed that legal abortion would reduce out-of-wedlock births and lower child abuse.  Michael New, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan-Dearborn and a speaker at Right to Life of Michigan's 2012 Conference, explains how the exact opposite happened.

Indeed, Donohue has observed that after Roe v. Wade, conceptions increased by 30 percent. Of course, a higher percentage of these conceptions were aborted. However, the increase in the incidence of abortion failed to offset this increase in conceptions. As such, the out-of-wedlock birthrate continued to climb.....

Legal abortion did not reduce child abuse. In fact, the exact opposite happened. The National Center on Child Abuse and Neglect has reported that child abuse has increased more than 1,000 percent since the legalization of abortion in 1973. According to data from the US Statistical Abstract, deaths due to child abuse continued to rise after the Roe v. Wade decision and increased by 400 percent between 1972 and 1990.

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