Also, that "persuasion" is a flowery-worded cop-out, States have the right to legislate this.
We have "high abortion" states, we have "low abortion" states and we have states that are close to the national median. All of those stats can be looked up and are put out by the Guttmacher Institute which is connected to the "pro-choice" side, maybe even planned parenthood itself.
I'll just go with the two most recently admitted states, Hawaii and Alaska:
https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-hawaiihttps://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/state-facts-about-abortion-alaskaUsually, they have graphs showing how states rates compare to the national average. It looks like they have changed their display, however I found this about Alaska.
Restrictions on Abortion
In Alaska, the following restrictions on abortion were in effect as of July 1, 2017:
A woman must receive state-directed counseling that includes information designed to discourage her from having an abortion.
And that is good, even if we look at Europe as liberal, if one checks their abortion laws, Germany has a waiting period and I believe mandatory counseling as well.
In France, there are no abortions after 12 weeks though, I'm sure there are loopholes to these kinds of laws. All of this can be researched.
So again, saying "persuasion", this is just flowery talk, we have mostly more liberal abortion laws than even Europe
though some states are making a good challenge of it.
@Jazzhead : I am just saying for everyone, JH is going to speak in vague and general terms if this is like the past, a total lack of precision in speaking of planned parenthood, waiting periods, the government funding the nation's biggest abortion provider in Planned Parenthood, individual state legislation and so on.