If there were cost-efficient leverage points, it might be worth investing some amount of money and effort in.
A non-exhaustive list of semi-conjoint reasons:
One believes abortion is a grave moral wrong and a lot occur each year.
One doesn’t believe abortion is a grave moral wrong, but assigns some weight to the view’s correctness. Even assigning a 10% chance to the view’s correctness still means a lot is potentially at stake.
There might be relatively easy ways to make a difference and have other positive, follow-on effects. For example, male contraceptives might make a big difference in reducing unintended pregnancies and my understanding (a few years old) is that there aren’t many funders of relevant research. (I recognize that some people argue that the follow-on effects of other contraceptives like the pill are not fully positive and some believe they may even be negative.)
Abortion is ridiculously polarizing and seems to crowd out discussion of other important issues in politics. Maybe reducing its salience would help increase the ability to focus on other issues?
Obtaining an abortion imposes greater and greater costs in the US (financially, in time required, psychologically, health risks) as restrictions are rolled out.
The strategies engaged in by many pro-life advocates seem unlikely to significantly reduce abortion rates.
If there were cost-efficient leverage points, it might be worth investing some amount of money and effort in.
A non-exhaustive list of semi-conjoint reasons:
One believes abortion is a grave moral wrong and a lot occur each year.
One doesn’t believe abortion is a grave moral wrong, but assigns some weight to the view’s correctness. Even assigning a 10% chance to the view’s correctness still means a lot is potentially at stake.
There might be relatively easy ways to make a difference and have other positive, follow-on effects. For example, male contraceptives might make a big difference in reducing unintended pregnancies and my understanding (a few years old) is that there aren’t many funders of relevant research. (I recognize that some people argue that the follow-on effects of other contraceptives like the pill are not fully positive and some believe they may even be negative.)
Abortion is ridiculously polarizing and seems to crowd out discussion of other important issues in politics. Maybe reducing its salience would help increase the ability to focus on other issues?
Obtaining an abortion imposes greater and greater costs in the US (financially, in time required, psychologically, health risks) as restrictions are rolled out.
The strategies engaged in by many pro-life advocates seem unlikely to significantly reduce abortion rates.