The other day I got into an argument with a young gentleman on twitter about abortion. He tweeted “I can’t understand how anyone can be pro-abortion”. This tweet genuinely confused me because I was not sure that ‘pro-abortion’ is even a real term, so I replied to it, saying ‘Pro- choice not pro-abortion’ which he replied with ‘pro-choice is the same as pro-abortion’. I got angry with this because I cannot believe that some people truly believe that being pro-choice is translated into being ‘pro-abortion’. This is truly incorrect. In Sarah Maddington, the attorney for pro-choice in Roe v Wade case, opening statement she said, “We are not here to advocate abortion. We are here to advocate that the decision whether a particular woman will continue to carry or will terminate a pregnancy is a decision that should be made by that individual.” This is the true
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Most children are put into foster care homes that aren’t always the best. In 2014, according to the AFCARS Report, about 400,000 children were placed in foster care due to unfit parents or being unwanted. Out of those children 100,000 were waiting to be adopted but only 50,000 are successfully given homes. The rest of the children that were not adopted travel in and out of various foster homes. A CASA study done in 2013 showed that children in foster care had a 31.6% chance of getting into drugs or crimes. If abortion was made illegal these numbers would become greater. There would be more unwanted children and an upheaval rate of crime in cities in general. In 2005 a man named Steven Levitt wrote a book called Feakonomics, and a section in his book comments on the relation of legalized abortion and city crime. When Roe v Wade was passed there was a decrease in crime by 30% because by the 1980’s the unwanted children that would have been born to do all the crime were not
Most children are put into foster care homes that aren’t always the best. In 2014, according to the AFCARS Report, about 400,000 children were placed in foster care due to unfit parents or being unwanted. Out of those children 100,000 were waiting to be adopted but only 50,000 are successfully given homes. The rest of the children that were not adopted travel in and out of various foster homes. A CASA study done in 2013 showed that children in foster care had a 31.6% chance of getting into drugs or crimes. If abortion was made illegal these numbers would become greater. There would be more unwanted children and an upheaval rate of crime in cities in general. In 2005 a man named Steven Levitt wrote a book called Feakonomics, and a section in his book comments on the relation of legalized abortion and city crime. When Roe v Wade was passed there was a decrease in crime by 30% because by the 1980’s the unwanted children that would have been born to do all the crime were not