Abortion should be illegal

Adoption Adoption of infants is different in time then adoption of older children. Children five or older take an average of three years to get adopted, but for infants it is a different story. The wait is typically between two and seven years for a healthy infant, but that is for the parents. Free for adoption babies tend to get adopted almost immediately. The foster care system is normally for children who have been abandoned or abused, if someone is giving up their child of their free will, they normally go through a private agency. This is why most people adopting an infant are willing to spend 20,000+ to adopt privately or overseas even though adopting from foster care is free. http://www.adopt.org...... Are fetuses alive? I put less weight on Roe vs Wade than many do, the reason being "Roe" ended up regretting this, and become a pro life advocate. Even starting her own ministry, "Roe no more" The problems with the viability argument: After birth a baby still cannot survive without it's mother, or other help. After birth many babies still die for many reasons, some only live minutes. Many people rely on machines, like ventilators to live. The main reason age isn't counted from conception is because that can be hard to determine. Birth is as arbitrary as anything else. Different babies become capable of living outside the womb at different points, some never are. Independence is not something easy to measure. Let's say, someone has lobar Holoprosencephaly, a seizure disorder, hydrocephalus, and severe developmental delays from Holoprosencephaly. For most of their basic needs they would rely on other people. Including likely several surgeries, and medication. http://www.endroe.org...... Other stuff I believe it is best to give any child every chance. Adoption isn't exactly hope for the best, as adoptive parents are required to go through a home study. It isn't easy to adopt with a criminal record, and most people who do adopt genuinely want the best for the children. It really cannot be said for sure whether a fetus or embryo can think or feel, but what is known is no one will ever have that child again. Abortion doesn't allow for second chances. My mother had five children, she says each of us acted different in the womb. Being poor isn't worse than being dead, being poor still means that you have a chance. Being dead means you get none. If a person feels they cannot take care of a child, I again, support adoption. In time I am also more than open to sex education, helping them gain access to contraception, and financial support for poor mothers. Pregnancy centers are also an option for many as I have seen first hand. http://studentsforlife.org......; One note before round four, I have seen an unplanned pregnancy save someone's life. A young (twenty years old) drug addict who my mother helped out a lot in life, and is close friends with my sister. When she found out she was pregnant she was at first terrorfied and considered abortion even, but with support she chose life and managed to become fully clean for her daughter, quitting cold turkey. She has told me that if it wasn't for her daughter she is sure she would of died of an overdose by now. It also gave her the courage to stop hanging around men who had been sexually abusing her. Her daughter saved her life, she had no money, was being sexually abused and coerced, she was on all kinds of drugs, but her daughter saved her life and turned it around. She is now in college, working hard to earn a degree with ADHD and dyslexia, all for her daughter. A local pregnancy center has been a huge help to her as well. I am okay with abortion in the case that the mother has at least a fifty percent chance of dying if she does not. However, I don't consider it quite the same thing to save at least one of them instead of both dying, and killing one without need. Now, for round four we will only focus on heath, so save arguments on this for the fifth and final round.