Abortion Arguments from Pro-Life and Pro-Choice

If abortion were to be outlawed, it would cause an increase in the population of orphanages and foster care facilities. Also, women who want an abortion badly enough will go to any extreme to rid themselves of their unwanted child. There would be more cases of mothers inflicting bodily harm on themselves, for example, beating or shooting themselves. Having an unwanted child can stop a relationship, can destroy a career, and can ruin one’s life in general. The unwanted child also suffers. Most of the time the mother of the unwanted child is very young and inexperienced or too poor to take care of the child. The child is usually malnourished, has no medical care, and gets very little attention or love. The foster care system isn’t any better. Only a small percentage of children are adopted by suitable parents, but the rest remain in the foster care system, where there is little or no personal care. In both cases, the child has a poor education because of the lack of attention and discipline. He grows up to be unproductive individual or a menace to society. Many get involved in drugs and crimes. These individuals are also very violent, lacking morality due to the small amount of care they received themselves. In the long run, not only does the child suffer but also society, who has to tolerate his violent behavior and crimes.

Say, for example, that you are in high school, and have sex for the first time. you use protection, but the condom is faulty, what are you going to do? You can’t go back and change things. By forcing the female to keep the child, you have pretty much destroyed her chances for a successful life. It is also likely to destroy the male’s chances at a successful life, considering that he will probably have to drop out of school and get a full-time, low paying job so that he can support the child.

Abortion is a women’s own right and choice. In 1973 the Roe v.