Livre d'Or

There are a lot of chewy points here, and as someone who firmly does not intend to reproduce on the grounds of not thinking myself up to being so good a parent as that warrants [ for those who don't know me, I have a stepson, whom I first met at age five, and started sharing living space with at age nine, who is now just gone sixteen, for whom I am endeavouring to do the best I can with the extent to which I am in loco parentis; six weeks of fostering a sixteen-month-old confirmed for me that this is a responsibility on an entirely different scale, and uses physical and psychological energy on an entirely different scale, from a child of that age ] I feel less than fully qualified to have a voice on. I agree with you entirely on large swathes of the anti-abortion movement being a flag of convenience for antipathy to sexual independence, and choice on that level; and I suppose "the patriarchy"'s as good a label as any for the opposing forces.

However, when I see:
Abortion doesn't solve [...] problems; it simply makes them less visible.

I find myself wondering whether the scale of problems considered includes such things as the correlation Steven Levitt has described [ link is to a collection of related articles on his blog ] between access to legalised abortion in the US post-Roe vs. Wade and the drastic drops in crime rates across the US visible between 1990 and 2003 [ which was when the last detailed report I read on this was compiled ] of in some cases almost 75% [ homicides in New York City ] and nation-wide rarely less than 50%, when the generation of young adults would no longer include many of the unwanted children it would previously have had.

[ I raise this here as a descriptive point about complexity of human interactions rather than a prescriptive one; an economic observation rather than a moral position. ]