Most abortions are driven by hardship, not medical emergency.
PROBLEM
- Abortion is often framed as a healthcare issue, but the vast majority of abortions are driven by economic hardship, instability, and lack of support.
- Many women feel forced into impossible choices because they lack financial security, housing, childcare, or family support.
- California law has largely settled the constitutional question, but it has not addressed the conditions that lead women to choose abortion in the first place.
- When society treats abortion as a default solution to hardship, it avoids confronting deeper failures.
SOLUTION
- Reduce economic despair by lowering the cost of living and expanding real opportunity for families and working parents.
- Support pregnant women and new mothers with practical help: housing stability, healthcare access, childcare support, and family resources.
- Partner with proven organizations that help mothers carry pregnancies to term and connect children with loving families through adoption.
- Expand education and support, so women know they are not alone and have real alternatives backed by action, not judgment.
- Focus on outcomes, not ideology, by making it easier to choose life through stability, support, and opportunity.