Abortion Has a Negative Impact on Communities and Society at Large
Despite “pro-choice” predictions to the contrary, the illegitimacy rate has increased significantly since Roe v. Wade. The percent of children born out of wedlock at the time of Roe was 15.5 percent, but by 2000 that number had increased to 33.2 percent, and by 2004, it increased to 36 percent. There is a high correlation between out-of-wedlock childbearing and a host of negative social indicators such as pervasive child poverty. Abortion hits minority communities hardest. The Guttmacher Institute reports that the abortion rate among black women remains more than twice the national average, and three times that of white women. The organization Blacks for Life calls abortion "cooperative genocide" Abortion also has contributed to population decline and demographic changes. The U.S. birth rate has dropped to the lowest level since national data has been available. In 2002 the birth rate fell to 13.9 per 1,000 - down 17 percent since 1990. This results in a demographic shift to an older population known as "population aging" where the share of the population of working age shrinks and the labor force grows older. This demographic phenomenon will have negative effects on the economy, especially as workers reach retirement age leaving fewer people engaged in productive work.
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Most notably 2nd century physician, Sonarus, author of "Gynaecology" described methods of how to go about self-abortions including exercise, lifting heavy objects etc... and a few herbal methods...Even in the Islamic Golden Age and the Dark Ages abortion was allowed. It didn't ruin Greek society, Islamic societies, and Christian societies. It's been around in Eastern countries too. Stop lying FRC
Just because something has been happening for thousands of years doesn't make it right, moral or just.
Slavery, murder, theft and rape have also been around for thousands of years. Perhaps you should confine your points as to why abortion is moral and legal and women need to terminate a pregnacy whenever they choose.
Perhaps you haven't heard, there was a detailed study of what factors most influence murder rates, guess what, access to abortion was number ONE. The problem is that having babies stresses families who already have limited resources.
Further, it doesn't make sense to expect young men and women to be perfect reproductive human beings, then when they make a mistake to require them to have a child. (We are programmed to reproduced; that's how our specie survived.) And, by the way, you only get 2 years of welfare because we don't want to pay for your mistake.
Didn't Jesus say something about forgiving sins?
I say government and church's have no right to interfere in a woman's choice about her own body..Only she knows what is best for her and her situation and being forced to give birth to a child changes a mothers life forever, rather it be a choice to keep the child or give that child up for adoption.
and most unwanted pregnancies are the burden of poor women who don't either can't care for them properly or she was a victim of rape or incest and no way should she be forced to have that child.....
A person I feel has a better chance to get over an abortion then to have a child they give up and wonder the rest of their life where and how that child is......
I say as long as it is very early in the pregnancy, abortion should be an option available to all women and decided between her, her doctor and if involved the father of that fetus....that is my stand.....
Even if we accepted your ridiculous argument in all its vagaries that abortion has a negative impact on communities and society at large, it would be completely irrelevant. The issue is not communities or societies. The issue is individual rights. There is no such thing as a moral decision to override the rights of the individual. Overriding the rights of the individual is the negation of morality.
By the way, nothing good has ever come from communities overriding individual rights. Study world history.