…..Okay but have you thought of this ?

Ey. So recently I saw a post against a very troubling debate to many pro-lives, abortion. Being pro-choice, I decided to pitch in and name a few reasons against this certain argument, both the good and bad since the argument and the people going with it seemed very ...one-sided ... and a little ignorant (haha sorry).

Um…. Things like protection exist???

Of course, this is very true, but they don’t always work. Maybe the condom wasn’t worn right or it broke. Sometimes the birth control doesn’t work or perhaps some women can’t take such things because of health reasons. Accidents like this isn’t their fault & that’s fine. If they don’t want to keep the child because they simply aren’t ready, not in the financial state to have one, or they’re not planning to have one at all, then that’s fine too.

If you’re not responsible then don’t have sex, duh!

This is also very very true. Most women who get abortions are in their 20’s. But there is such a thing called forced sex. This is well known as rape. According to the U.S National Library of Medicine, “The national rape-related pregnancy rate is 5.0% per rape among victims of reproductive age (aged 12 to 45); among adult women an estimated 32,101 pregnancies result from rape each year.” With that being said, why are you going to force a woman to keep a baby that she didn’t want to have? Why are you going to force the victim to pay the price of a crime that she did not commit?

Well why not just give it up for adoption??

According to the AFCARS Report, No. 20, “In the U.S. 397,122 children are living without permanent families in the foster care system. 101,666 of these children are eligible for adoption, but nearly 32% of these children will wait over three years in foster care before being adopted.” Okay, so what? Well also according to Childcentre.info (Executive Summary), “No child under three years of age should be placed in institutional care without a parent or primary caregiver, according to research from 32 European countries, including nine in-depth country studies, which considered the “risk of harm in terms of attachment disorder, developmental delay and neural atrophy in the developing brain."” We’re trying to have LESS kids be in foster homes, this solution makes this situation worst.

You’re still killing a life that could’ve been !!

I’ll let Bill Nye, well known as “The Science Guy,” explain this a little more.

-Jaz Condado