>if avoiding abortion were the problem, then they'd advocate
>contraception, right? contraception that works.
Here's something else that gums up the works. If they wanted to avoid teenage pregnancy and stds they'd advocate not locking so many people up.
http://realcostofprisons.org/blog/archives/women_and_children/index.html
Rates of sexually transmitted infections and teenage pregnancies, adjusted for age, race, and poverty distributions by county, consistently increased with increasing incarceration rates. In the most extreme case, teenage pregnancies exhibited an increase of 71.61 per 100000 population (95% confidence interval [CI]=41.88, 101.35) in 1996 after an increase in the prison population rate from 223.31 to 468.58 per 100 000 population in 1995.
Conclusions. High rates of incarceration can have the unintended consequence of destabilizing communities and contributing to adverse health outcomes. (Am J Public Health. 2006;96:1762-1765. doi:10.2105/ AJPH.2005.081760)