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Sure, once they are a child. But before that point wouldn't it be great if they never wound up in the system? Anti-abortion people always bring up the "well put the baby up for adoption " idea, and my point is that's not really a viable solution in America. Also, you didn't answer my question. How many have You adopted? Because if it's not at least 1, and probably should be more, your a hypocrite. You don't want to care for a child, or judge you don't have the means or capacity to, so you don't adopt. Which is the same decision these women have come to in many cases.
Look into the statistics of age ranges for foster care/adoption, I think you will be very surprised at the data. But unfortunately regardless of how many children are left in poor life circumstances because of a failure by the government to give adequate incentives to promote fostering/adoption as well as funding to foster care organizations that does not change the morality of killing a healthy baby that would, if left to nature, be born. As I responded to another person, want and convenience does not dictate morality. Just because we don't have the perfect solutions doesn't mean we can stop playing the game.
So does all that mean the child doesn't suffer? Does that mean that their suffering is preferable to abortion? Does it mean that the mother's potential life long side affects didn't occur? That her real risk of poverty, medical conditions, and death never happened? Or do all those things just mean absolutely nothing?
It's not a game. It's not about convenience. It's about being able to choose for yourself, your family, and your body. There is literally no other situation in which we force people to give up their bodies, risk their lives, or give up their livelihood for someone else.
I have two children. They could need one of my organs to survive, but no one could force me to donate. No one. No one could force my husband. No one could force you. But when a person is pregnant, suddenly their body isn't their own anymore. It's viewed as an irreversible event that we have to leave up to chance no matter what. People talk about children who would be alive if not for abortion. What about subsequent children who wouldn't be alive if an earlier pregnancy wasn't aborted? The women who would have died if not for abortion?
Sure, there's the "for the life of the mother exception", but in reality, it doesn't work out so clear cut. Doctors are afraid of spending their lives in jail and having insurmountable fines, so they wait until women are dying right here, right now. Women risk their fertility and their lives. Families risk losing their mother because of these unnecessarily harsh consequences. There's no other situation in which we say, hey, you might die from this, but we won't do anything until you're dying right this second because if someone can "prove" that you wouldn't have died, then we'll go to jail for life.