The literacy crisis isn’t that people can’t read the words. It’s that they can’t understand the context, infer meaning, recognise nuance, identify contradictions, or draw logical conclusions from what they’ve read.
If you studied the 1800s even in passing you’d be pro-choice. What people do when they don’t want/can’t afford a kid is deeply disturbing and a whole lot worse than popping a pill that removes a clump of cells the size of a fingernail from the uterus. Do you think orphanages were full of orphans?