Even if this were not possible, abortion can’t be justified simply because pro-life advocates do not work to reduce natural miscarriages. Is it not appropriate to confront the man-made threats to human life before confronting the abundance of natural threats? Would we tell gun-control advocates who work to stop elementary-school shootings that they don’t really care about elementary school students, because they don’t work to reduce the much greater number of child deaths that result from cancer?
