Plus, birth control costs much less than an abortion and carries less medical risk. Might want to try to think about birth control beforehand rather than have an abortion afterwards. It’s just kind of a lot simpler way to do things.

~ signed, a product of a birth-control-free union before abortion was legalized (an adoptee)

I’m not sure that’s true.

Hungarian uses the same word for he and for she (though the plural is different). So I don’t think the he/she disctinction is embedded in language, but is just a function of linguistic tradition.

I therefore think the distinction between singular and plural, too, would be a matter of which linguistic tradition you learned and not inherently embedded in language. There may well be languages that don’t distinguish. There’s some interesting general info at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_number#Singular_versus_plural –
it acknowledges the use of they instead of he/she in English but doesn’t give examples of that specific practice in other languages, but talks about how other languages conflate singular and plural for other purposes.