The whole "Life starts at conception" bit is a naive way of looking at it.
Life starts when the egg is formed and the sperm are created, they just take on a different route when they're introduced to one another. Using contraceptive is just killing the sperm, using birth control is just killing the egg. GOING THROUGH YOUR PERIOD EVERY MONTH IS JUST KILLING THE EGG.
What's the difference between passing the egg through your period, or it being conceived and you aborting it? Nothing, because before conception the egg was nothing, and after abortion it's again nothing.
It's not like you're walking around with one single egg your entire life and it's your only shot, it's the only human life that can come out of you. Every egg mixed with every sperm cell creates a different baby. You may abort it, or you may not even conceive it, but that CHANCE that the egg has will pass the same regardless. If you don't want to abort it because you want to have it, that's fine and dandy.
I'm pro-choice. Need I elaborate further?
Edit: The "have it and give it up for adoption/foster care" idea is even more naive.
People are being born more every day than people are dying. This is an ever-growing trend and this causes this wonderful thing China knows very well called overpopulation. Welfare is at an all-time high in the US, unemployment is skyrocketing, other government aid programs to "poor" families are stressed to the max and beyond, for the simple reason of people having children they can't afford. This isn't something that just goes away, either, it gets worse and worse as time goes on because populations rise and rise. Epidemics, wars, abortions, murders, are all good things to the overall population. I've come to accept the fact I might die some day in some "unfair" way, be it murder, a terrorist bombing, or even some kitchen accident that some gas leak blows up my building. In the end, my death makes one more spot on the social security list and the population is one person smaller of being too big, which we're already on the brink of.
The above paragraph is all I'll accept anyone criticizing, my first statement on abortion is bulletproof.
Edit: And yes, if my mother was broke, working to the bone to scrape by, and stressed to her limits when I came about, damn straight I don't care if I was aborted. Hell, if my mother was a crackhead living off of welfare I would PREFER to have been aborted than raised in an enviroment like that.
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