I"m Pro-choice, tell me why you aren"t

"The claim that a fetus is a human being is not an opinion, but a fact and one that's backed up by scientific evidence. Person is a legal term. Unfortunately a fetus is not a person, but they should be because they are a scientific human." Scientists agree that "life" begins at conception & this life is capable of becoming a person, but life is a broad definition. Which is why I said a human-being/person. Science is constantly evolving and scientists cannot collectively agree on when a fetus is a human-being. One argument is the "twinning argument", where up to two weeks after fertilization the zygote can split into multiple zygotes. If at conception a zygote is considered a human-being, it does not make sense that a human-being split themselves in half and create an entire new human-being with the same DNA. Here is a link to scientists opposing theories on when a fetus is considered human-being: http://science.jburroughs.org... Here is the citation for foster care systems costing $4.3 billion dollars and over 600,000 kids in the system. For all these people who want to adopt so badly, where are they for these kids, who are actual sentient human-beings: http://www.adoptioncouncil.org... You stated that 94% of children get adopted within 4 years. Yes, because only 4% of women choose adoption for their unwanted pregnancies. After a few years of forcing women to carry pregnancies to term supply will outweigh demand and there will be even more children in the foster care system. "With few exceptions, if any kids don"t get messed up in the system." What? There are thousands of horror stories about children who have suffered both physically and psychologically in the foster care system. Again, all these supposed people so desperate to adopt should focus firstly on the actual children in this world and not a fetus. I never said adoption was bad, I said it is not a good alternative. Carrying a pregnancy to term even when you want the child take a toll on women physically and emotionally. Giving birth is a huge commitment & there are risks for complications. No body should be forced to do that if they don"t want to, because a fetus is not a person, whereas a woman is a person and should choose what she decides to do with her body. "They might be able to live their drug addict lifestyle anyway, but that's a digression. If they planned to set a kid up for adoption and they don't want to anymore, then why would they change their minds?" How is that a digression? Again are you pro-life or pro-birth. Would you not argue that a fundamental aspect of pro-life would be wanting a child to be healthy or not risk dying in complications due to the mother using drugs and drinking throughout her pregnancy? You just said they might live their drug addicted lifestyle anyway, but it"s okay as long as they"re born. It"s preferable to birth a drug addicted baby that will suffer and feel pain than to abort a fetus when it is incapable of feeling pain. Women do sometimes change their mind about adoption, maybe after being forced to go through all that she would want something out of it. However, if we are taking away a woman"s right to choose perhaps we can also deem unfit mothers to have to give up their newborns as well. There will be no way to measure exactly how many abortions are performed if they are being done illegally. In fact, you can literally have an abortion by taking a pill now, if successful there will be no way to know one has had an abortion but if it"s unsuccessful the woman will be placed at risk. Again, studies show that banning abortion does not stop abortion but increases dangerous abortions. You are saying anyone who gets an abortion should be treated as a murderer? That"s honestly ridiculous to me as there are so many layers to a women"s choice to abort and a fetus is again not equivalent to an actual person. & as I argued before, it is not always detectable when someone has had an abortion versus when they miscarry. You are risking giving women a life sentence for miscarriage, I never thought I would see the day where we wanted to be our society to align with El Salvador. You want abstinence to be encouraged but that"s unrealistic lol. People want to have sex and they are going to, especially when abstinence is encouraged. Birth control is not always effective. Many people who had abortions used some method of birth control. If my birth control fails me, I am 100% getting an abortion & no one is going to force me to have a child. That is my choice and my choice only & just because you think conception is a human-being is completely irrelevant to what I choose to do with my body. If you feel that way, don"t have an abortion.