Abortion and Global warming

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Does an abortion prevent previous children?
Does an abortion prevent later children?

Yeah, this is what makes Heywood's premise so derpy and airheaded, to me; there's no requirement to reproduce. Those that want to have kids obviously aren't going to have abortions unless they really need to, those that don't want to have kids obviously won't bar unforeseen mishaps, and more importantly, this issue is more nuanced than the simplistic binary Heywood is attempting to enforce.

Surveys show that many abortions happen not because the woman doesn't want kids period, but that she doesn't at that specific time; either she's finished having kids and doesn't want another, or will have them later, but not now. I wish I could find this, and maybe one of you guys or gals has better Google-fu than me, but I think there's actually a study out there that shows having an abortion doesn't really affect the number of kids a woman is intending to have, in most cases. Like, if you ask prior to an abortion how many children she'd like to have, and then ask down the line how many she did have/is still intending to have, the number seems to stay the same. So Heywood's strange notion that having an abortion at one time precludes ever having children at all is just... bizarre.

The probability of his ridiculous hypothetical just gets lower and lower.