The most common reasons are:
-Birth control (contraceptive) failure. Over half of all women who have an abortion used a contraceptive method during the month they became pregnant.5
-Inability to support or care for a child.
-To end an unwanted pregnancy.
-To prevent the birth of a child with birth defects or severe medical problems. Such defects are often unknown until routine second-trimester tests are done.
-Pregnancy resulting from rape or incest.
-Physical or mental conditionsExcluding reason 3 because it is a useless trusim ;-) presumably you must also believe that contraception failure, poverty, rape/incest and physical/mental conditions are 800% more common in the USA than in the Netherlands or Japan, since the abortion rate is 8 times as high.
Not expressing any opinion, just observing that much of the dogma relied on when discussing these issues is severely flawed.
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1