The author of the linked article is Tim Roemer. According to the credits at the end of the article:

Tim Roemer is a Former Congressman from Indiana, a Former Member of the 9/11 Commission and a Past Candidate for Chairman of the DNC.

In the article, Roemer makes this reference:

Research conducted by the Alan Guttmacher Institute shows that half of pregnancies in this country are unplanned and half of those end in abortion.

In real numbers, there are three million unwanted pregnancies in the US per year, and approximately 1.3 million abortions a year.

Don't these numbers make you ill?

They should, especially, given, what the President said in the State of the Union.

If you remember correctly, the President said:

There are fewer abortions in America than at any point in the last three decades, and the number of children born to teenage mothers has been falling for a dozen years in a row.

1.3 million abortions in the last year is "fewer abortions in America than at any point in the last three decades"?

So, at minimum, there have been, approximately, 39 million abortions over the last 30 years.

I, personally, find those numbers completely unacceptable. I am not an advocate of completely outlawing abortion, but this is not right. I believe that there is a better way to deal with unwanted pregnancies. Which, at the rate that Roemer quotes, would mean that in the US over the last 30 years, there have been, at least, 90 million unwanted pregnancies.

Let's keep our eye on the ball here.

We could talk about unwed mothers, welfare mothers, teen agers having unprotected sex, victims of rape and incest, but those, among other things, are not the issue at hand. Unwanted pregnancies are.

Roemer talks about "grants for age appropriate pregnancy prevention education", and goes on to say:

We must be capable of openly discussing appropriate sex education programs, promoting abstinence for teens, and generously funding contraception and counseling. Second, it provides support for pregnant women in ways that encourage them to continue their pregnancies such as day care, pregnancy counseling on campuses, permanent adoption tax credits, better availability for referral information, shelters for women and children in crisis pregnancies, support for safe haven laws and better medical insurance for mothers and children through their first year of life.

These are things that address in a substantial fashion the root causes of abortions, and unwanted pregnancies.

Unwanted pregnancies, and people that shouldn't have sex with each other having sex are simple facts of existence. Not just now, but throughout history, even in the Bible. Some type of misguided belief that this is a modern phenomenon, or there is a way to "Just Say No" out of this, is, simply, unrealistic.

I do believe that Roe v. Wade should be overturned. However, I do not believe that abortion is all cases should be illegal. We can discuss, if you want, my thinking in that regard more fully at a different time.

But, this is a serious problem. The Democratic Party is proposing some serious things to address it in a realistic way.

Read the article and think about it.