Preventing an unwanted pregnancy can literally cost pennies, and abstention advocates would argue it costs nothing.

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However easy it is to feel muddled by the dilemmas, everything becomes clear when someone faces an unwanted pregnancy.

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One could also say that the financial impact of an unwanted pregnancy would be a financial calamity for some.

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Remember, for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy, it is a binary decision.

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"When a women is facing an unwanted pregnancy she will already be under great stress, to create further obstacles for her is completely unethical in my view, " she said.

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Wood built on her stardom with the 1962 musical Gypsy, and 1963's Love with the Proper Stranger, which saw her win her third Oscar nomination as a shop assistant facing unwanted pregnancy.

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And there is the graver case of children who are faced with the uncompromising reality of the drive for sex, power and respect, without the expertise and impulse control it takes to ward off unwanted pregnancy or violence.

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"I think what the Gosnell experience suggests is that women will do pretty awful things to themselves in order to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, " said Tracy Weitz, an associate professor at the University of California, San Francisco, who researches public policy on abortions later in pregnancy.

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