There’s little evidence to suggest that this is the impetus that men through the ages have imagined. The frequent claim that vanity is the main reason for having an abortion is little more than a tactic to make people who seek out abortions seem frivolous. It is far, far easier to say that women get abortions because they’re irresponsible and self-involved than to address (and perhaps try to remedy) the social causes that, for many women, necessitate abortion. A 2004
