Abortion

Point 1: I will start with three articles pertaining to the Prohibition of Alcohol http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... http://en.wikipedia.org... These three articles show what is wrong with prohibition of alcohol, and in general, prohibition of anything. The prohibition of something will only increase crime. Crime spiked during the prohibition years, as gangs started forming. Crimes related to prohibition included, organized crime to sell alcohol on the black market, fixing up cars to speed past prohibition cars, and making alcohol at home. The prohibition of alcohol directly contributed to the St. Valentine's Day Massacre. This is exactly what will happen with abortion. Abortion will be done on the black market or underground. Point 2: "When safe medical procedures are banned by law, they have resorted to dangerous--sometimes deadly--"back-alley" abortions." This comes from this website: http://socialistworker.org.... I do hope you read the whole article. The many great quotes in this passage are too numerous to quote them all. "In 1964, 28-year-old Geraldine Santoro bled to death on the floor of a Connecticut hotel room after she and her former lover, Clyde Dixon, attempted an abortion on their own. Dixon, who had no medical experience of any kind, used a textbook and some borrowed tools. When things went terribly wrong, he fled the scene, and Santoro died alone". This quote alone sums up what it was like for the thousands of women who died at the hands of untrained specialists. "Of these, tens upon tens of thousands died from illegal abortions or complications arising from them. One 1932 study estimated that illegal abortions or complications from them were the cause of death for 15,000 women each year. Current, more conservative, estimates of the death toll still stand at between 5,000 and 10,000 deaths per year". This quote shows the horror of the pre-Roe vs. Wade years. "Six months after abortion was legalized in Guyana in 1995, admissions for septic and incomplete abortion dropped by 41%. Previously, septic abortion had been the third largest, and incomplete abortion the eighth largest, cause of admissions to the country's public hospitals. One year after Romania legalized abortion in 1990, its abortion-related mortality rate fell from 142 to 47 deaths per 100,000 live births.7 These are examples of the positive impact legalizing abortion has on women's health." This quote comes from: http://www.ourbodiesourselves.org.... This quote shows what happens after a country that has outlawed abortion has legalized abortion. As shown, legalized abortion has drastrically reduced the number of complications in abortion, and has saved the lives of tens of thousands of women. Point 3: Abortion "Costs about $300-$950 in the first trimester" Source: http://www.plannedparenthood.org... The cost of raising a child as a single parent with a yearly salary less than $57,000 and not planning on taking that child through college is $152,340. Source: http://www.babycenter.com.... Anything significantly less than that would be depriving the child of necessaary materials. That lady with five kids will be spending over $750,000. I am sure the amount of welfare money received from having a child does not equal the difference between the price of abortion, and the price of having one child. In fact, this article should point out the dangers of receiving welfare: http://www.heritage.org.... "When past and estimated future receipts of AFDC are combined, the estimated average length of stay on AFDC, among those families currently receiving benefits, is 13 years." This quote comes from the previous website. This quote points to the fact that if a child is on welfare, the child is likely to be on welfare for over half his or her childhood. This suggests that your claim that having children will increase welfare in fact is wrong. Why? Because if they are on welfare, they are likely very poor, and the child will have a bad childhood, and most likely, and bad rest of his life. Point 4: "Forty-two percent of women obtaining abortions have incomes below 100% of the federal poverty level ($10,830 for a single woman with no children)" "Twenty-seven percent of women obtaining abortions have incomes between 100–199% of the federal poverty level" These two quotes come from http://www.guttmacher.org.... Do you think the babies that were aborted by these 69% of women who are single, and make a yearly income of less then $21,660 would have had a very good life? Do you think they would ever have a chance? Point 5: Say those 69% of women were not able to abort. Those children grew up in terrible surroundings surrounded by violence, murder, want, and laziness. I am sure a lot of those children would grow up to become theives and even murderers. And I am sure a lot of those would end up in jail. These children would be better off not being born. Point 6: A right is defined as: "Rights are entitlements (not) to perform certain actions, or (not) to be in certain states; or entitlements that others (not) perform certain actions or (not) be in certain states" from the website: http://plato.stanford.edu... Point 7: "98.5% of abortions are before the 21st week of pregnancy and 61.9 are before the 9th week of pregnancy." From: http://www.guttmacher.org.... So most aborted babies do not feel pain. Point 8: Again, a lot of these symptoms probably have to do with the fact that most women who have abortions are poor. This creates psychological problems. Point 9: The link that having an abortion causes breast cancer has not been proven yet. Why was the study not published? Becuase they knew it was wrong. Point 10: There are millions of adopted children that have either never been adopted, or has just bounced from family to family to family for years. And not to mention that there are thousands of reported cases of abuse caused by the family on the child. Few adopted children are in a "good" home and has not been abused. Point 11: There are also a lot of side effects of pregnancy and giving birth too. Point 12: Abortion is also a popular choice among young women. I think these are necessary also because young women will either not want to take care of the child, or can not take care of it well. The young women will send the child through the bumpy and sometimes not successful ride of adoption. Point 13: Also, what if a woman is raped, and becomes pregnant? Here, the woman isn't even prepared for a child. Do you think she will be able to take good care of the child? Do you think she could stand looking at the product of her rape? ==Conclusion== My return arguments provide ample proof that abortion is sometimes a necessary course of action when either the woman is young and will not take care of the child, or when the woman is young, and she will not be able to provide adequetly for the child and the child will turn to a life of crime that is good to neither the child nor the rest of the population. And the child's ride through adoption is rarely successful. Please read this: http://pricetheory.uchicago.edu.... It will explain a lot about abortion and how legalization of it will help society.