Kathryn
It was on fire when I laid down on it.
I already gave my answer. Not doing so again, and certainly not under these conditions. And you don't know why the crime rate in the 1990s began dropping. Your hypothesis is full of holes. For instance, your hypothesis doesn't explain the falling crime rates in countries around the world during the same time period, which had no association with abortion or its measures.So, no answer despite your earlier statement that you answered?
If a woman wants an abortion, there's a huge chance that not getting one will harm her. Depression, suicide, poverty, loss of opportunity, and a million more things will land on her. The child, too, gets a wonderful life. Drunk poor mommy doesn't love it, in fact resents it's existence, so it's bound to grow up to be a wonderful member of society.
In the Freakanomics books, it was pointed out that the violent crime rate in the US began to spike in the 1980s. There was a genuine concern that the world was going to soon see essentially super-criminals. Remember all the apocalyptic movies in the 80s like The Warriors, and Escape from New York? They were spawned by that movement toward more and more criminals. And then, in the early 90s, the crime rate dropped way down in a very short amount of time. The reason? The unwanted, unloved children I posited above stopped being born because Roe vs. Wade gave moms who didn't want to be moms a way to get out. Horrifying damaged people who learned to hate from parents who didn't want them started to disappear, making society itself safer. Everyone, every single member of society, has a better world when abortion is available. The largest benefactor? The mom-who-ain't-a-mom-type. Why would anyone wish that kind of existence on anyone else?
So, as to my original point, forcing my mother to harm herself, regardless of the mechanism, is evil, plain and simple. A person who would doom this women to a life she doesn't want, and a child who will grow up poor, and more likely to fail at life than a child who is wanted, is a person who is acting on bad information.
If a woman, any woman, wants an abortion, she should have that option available to her, both for her own good, and the good of a child who's life will be brutishly difficult and come to no good.
I'm sure glad my mother, who was mentally ill, chose life for me instead of abortion.
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