abortion should be illegal including the first trimester, but not investigated nor punished*

Some of your analogies were somewhat unclear to me, but I've tried my best to understand your true meaning. :) Please correct me if I misread your argument. Rebuttals to your argument first, then my arguments second. "abortion should be illegal including the first trimester, but not investigated nor punished in the first trimester."I'm sorry to say this, but if there is no consequence, people will do whatever. For example, imagine that pranking your least favorite teacher at school was not allowed, but you wouldn't get any punishment or email sent home if you did it. It's pretty safe to assume that the teacher would be pranked by someone. True, many people are law-abiding citizens, but there's absolutely no point of having a law if its not going to be followed by all. Plus, if its not even investigated, the government won't even know when their laws are being broken." the mother assumed the risk of pregnancy. having sex is something that can result in pregnancy"True enough, but birth control sometimes fails, and condoms break. People make mistakes, and peer pressure is strong. People should not have to give up the freedoms of being their age to take care of a baby they don't want. Teen mothers can be subject to more bullying and don't have as many opportunities (either vocational or education or social). And, say the mother keeps the baby, and sends it to an orphanage, orphanages are miserable places. Kids in orphanages feel worthless, and unwanted. I can testify to that with some of my own experiences with orphaned, abandoned, or surrendered kids. 50% of pregnancies are unwanted in the US. The population will increase WAY too fast if abortion is completely banned. I'm going to address some of your other points in my own argument. Money, National Defecit (US statistics, but will have similar effects in other countries)As determined by the Congressional Budget Office, a ban on all abortions after 20 weeks would increase the federal defecit by $225 million dollars over 9 years. This increases the number of taxes people have to pay, and is economically harder on the nation because taxes will rise. Abortions after 20 weeks shouldn't be banned, because people have reasons for waiting. Many people are unable to afford an abortion and have to save. If it is banned after 20 weeks, these people will have to spend a lot of their time and income on having the baby, and then are more likely to qualify for programs that help the economically disadvantaged, costing the defecit more money. 42% of women who want abortions are below the federal poverty level. Why drag them down further with a baby?Health of the WomanWith modern technologies, having an abortion is safer than ever. A woman has a .6/100,000 chance of dying during an abortion, and an 8.8/100,000 chance of dying during birth. Medical organizations like NCI, and ACS have disproven the idea that abortion increases the risk of breast cancer, and abortion is "one of the safest medical procedures performed in America" according to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists. It's been scientifically proven that fetuses cannot feel pain. NIH has a great article about the science of it (nerve endings, examples, comparisons, at this link http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov...;)17,900,000. That's a big number. 153,000,000. That's another big number. Combine them, and you get 170,900,000. That's the number of orphaned/half orphaned kids in the world. We don't need more babies. Being pro-life is when you care more about Than s://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com...; alt="" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com...; data-sz="f" /> or s://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com...; alt="" data-src="https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com...; data-sz="f" /> Sourceshttp://thinkprogress.org...http://aaplog.wildapricot.org...http://www.guttmacher.org...http://thinkprogress.org...http://www.asanet.org...