Education provides one solution towards preventing abortion. Girls need to be taught by their parents and through their public education, to respect themselves, their bodies, and learn the value of monogamy, of long term relationships, and of emotional commitment before engaging in sexual relations. This is beneficial both emotionally, psychologically and physically. How avoid what might lead to an unwanted pregnancy is also of necessity in a girl's education.
Young men need to learn not to use the procreative powers as a sport, as a means of proving one's manhood, and to be responsible. They need to realize that they are responsible for a life that they bring into the world through sexual relations and that governments, in general, hold the male responsible for providing for that child.
Promiscuity carries with it a heavy emotional and psychological price tag. Abortion, also, carries with it emotional and psychological burdens which sometimes are long-lasting. The mother needs to think seriously before having an abortion, and not make a decision under the pressure of others, because she is the one that is going to have to live with that decision for the rest of her life.
It is said, surprisingly, that even the fathers of the baby that has been aborted is often times in need of therapy because of guilt or grief over the lost life. (Kalish, S., May/June 2004. Psychology Today) Depression can result when a girl or woman has an abortion or series of abortions and this is not uncommon.