Countless women report they felt coerced into having an abortion, often by a spouse or romantic partner. The threat of violence is a driving force aiding the abortion industry.

In a 2014 study titled, “Associations between intimate partner violence and termination of pregnancy: a systematic review and meta-analysis” researchers set out to determine the relationship between intimate partner violence and abortion. They discovered that there is a strong association between violence and abortion.

Women in violent relationships were more likely to have concealed the abortion from their partner than those who were not.

If you're the typical sort of person who reads pro-life blogs, the pro-life position probably seems to you not just true, but obviously true. It doesn't feel like an edge case, one where you're having to struggle to see whether the general principles you're committed to apply. You have a confidence in your view that you don’t have about your opinions about the correct marginal tax rate or the appropriateness of white lies. Don’t kill babies: it’s obvious.

You might think that learning more about the complexities of the abortion debate might swiftly remove that sense of obviousness. But the more you actually look into it, the more the pro-life view seems distinguished by its clarity and simplicity.