Dr. Patricia Lohr:

It is telling that most of the women we see were using a contraceptive method at the time that they conceived. They were not intending to become pregnant and were intending to use a method of contraception to prevent a pregnancy. On that basis I do not see evidence that women are using abortion as a method of contraception. It is a backup for when contraception fails, or in a very small number of cases, as I have described, there are foetal or sometimes even maternal indications to end the pregnancy.