It's been my experience that most abortions happen as a result of birth-control failure. ..that is, the pregnancy was came about due to contraceptive failure (anything from a broken condom, to forgetting a pill to "got pregnant regardless"). Of those I've known, it's usually women who were on the pill. One in particular that I remember hadn't been told that antibiotics can nullify the effects of the pill.

In effect, that's what happened to us. For whatever reason, my ex and I found ourselves with a pregnancy on our hands (The Pill be damned, evidently). Here's the hard part. We'd just both gone in for a series of full-torso x-rays and we'd both just started seeing a chiropractor. Doing the math, we discovered that my ex had been pregnant for a few days when she had all of her x-rays.

We discovered just what kinds of risks we were in for and the news was NOT good. The odds of "complications" were now orders of magnitude higher than with our first daughter. It was not an easy decision to abort - far from it.

Within three years, we had another daughter - very much planned - to the point that we were trying to conceive as soon as the doctor said it was ok after the miscarriage I mentioned up-topic. We didn't want TOO much time in between our kids. 5 years was enough

It's not a fun or easy topic to discuss.