<<<<<Many abortions happen because people are uneducated about other forms of birth control or because women cannot afford to support another child.>>>>>>
Yes, many, but _the majority_ of abortions in the United States are had by women who were using a contraceptive:
"More than half of women (54%) were using a contraceptive method in the month they became pregnant" (at <http://www.guttmacher.org/pipermail/agi/2002-December/000068.html>);
and women who are _not_ too poor to have a baby:
"Combining the data on the impact of a birth on a woman's education and on her financial situation yields a broader, more inclusive category of socioeconomic reasons. The proportion of women who cited such overall socioeconomic reasons as their primary one for having an abortion is less than 10% in five studies, 10–29% in nine studies, 30–55% in nine and 80–86% in two" (at <http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/2411798.html>).
In the United States, women who have abortions becaue they "cannot afford a baby" are 21.3% (at <http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/2411798.html>).
Joanna asks:
<<<<<But if you come out with a slogan like "I'm not sorry," then how can you argue for the need/desirability to create/expand such programs and to minimize abortions?>>>>>
It's perfectly possible to say that "I'm not sorry" about having had an abortion and argue that it is necessary and desirable to create and expand child care programs and the like in order to meet the needs of children, women, and men. Most married women who have abortions have them to postpone child-bearing until later or have them after they have already had a desired number of children.
***** Table 1. Percentages of women, by fertility intentions and contraceptive use, selected countries, various years
Country Married women 15-49 and year Wanting to Wanting to
postpone stop
childbearing* childbearing
United States, 1988§ 23.0 64.0
<http://www.agi-usa.org/pubs/journals/2411798.html> *****
Yoshie