Abortion should be illegal

First I will address your laundry list of effects of abortions. You mentioned heavy bleeding, infection, death, and scarring. I find that funny because those can also happen during a pregnancy. Here is another fact: "In countries where childbirth is safe, 1 in every 15.000 women dies during childbirth. Less than 1 in every 200,000 women who use a medical abortion die, making medical abortions safer than childbirth and about as safe as naturally occurring miscarriages. This means that a safe abortion with Mifepristone and Misoprostol is always lifesaving." Literally, it is more dangerous to go through childbirth than through an abortion. https://www.womenonweb.org... You also talked about how in the cases of rape, lack of money, or not being ready, adoption is the best option. However, if the woman is not ready or financially incapable of taking care of a baby and they decide to keep it, they have to pay the enormous hospital bill. "On average, U.S. hospital deliveries cost $3,500 per stay, according to the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project. Add in prenatal, delivery-related and post-partum healthcare, and you're looking at an $8,802 tab, according to a Thomson Healthcare study for March of Dimes." Compare that to the cost of abortion which is $300 to $800 dollars. How is that even a better option? But let's say the woman gives birth anyway and decides to put the baby up for adoption. Do you know how bad and problematic our adoption and foster care system is? All the cases of sexual, physical and emotional abuse? Children who die at the hands of bad parents? Giving up a child for adoption is a HUGE gamble, you don't know where they will end up. Maybe they might go to a good home but they could also go to a terrible home. is it better to abort them before they can think or feel? Or is it better to birth them and then send them into a world where there is a huge chance they will be unloved and treated badly? Just because they get adopted quickly does not mean they are going to the right people. americanpregnancy.org/unplanned-pregnancy/abortion-pill/ www.parents.com/pregnancy/considering-baby/financing-family/birth-hospital-costs/ You also talk about how having an abortion is killing the unborn. I would like to mention how a fetus is not alive. It cannot think. it cannot feel. It is not alive YET. I think it is important to note that being alive is defined as to be "alert and active; animated". Would anyone describe a fetus as any of those things? No. Because they are not alive. And then there are the cases where a mother's life is in danger if she gives birth. Like when the fetus grows outside the correct area. Would you not want that woman to get abortion? Would you rather her die because the fetus is "alive"? If you consider a fetus to be alive, then is it better for two people to be dead than one? You talked about how in every case a mother and child should be best protected. Is ruining people's lives (mother and child) protecting them? And finally, you mentioned how a persons right to do with their body as they wish is far more limited then that of a persons right to live. "For instance involuntary hospitalization of severely suicidal patients. In that case, someones right to choose what to do with their body is over ridden by their right to live, and in that case they would have only hurt themselves unlike abortion." In that case, the person is actually trying to kill something that us living--themselves. A fetus as I have argued is not alive and thus makes your argument irrelevant.