"The pro-choice believe this due to the fact of not harming the baby from your sickness but another option is adoption! You’ll still be able to let the baby live. For teen pregnancies, there are some religious beliefs as to where you shouldn’t have premarital sex. If you don’t want a child, you shouldn’t have sex at a young age because it’s not always safe. Also, abortions can result into a risk of getting ill, physical damage, stopping you from having a child again or even death. Not only will the baby die, but the mother will as well. One last reason for the side that agrees with abortion is that they believe outlawing it, would be discrimination. Women with a lower income can lead them to into participating in an illegal abortion or a ‘black-market’ abortion. Getting an abortion illegally can cause much more harm to the mother and baby than giving birth. I believe that it is not worth risking the lives of you and your child for a surgery." - Ishika M. "Abortion: Why It's Wrong"


 Abortion is a well-known debate in our society today. We have politicians with plans to defund our resources and religious leaders antagonizing us everyday for being immoral in this decision we, as women, must come to make. Not every woman will come to face having to make a decision of ending a pregnancy or allowing to proceed to full term. Only 35% of women will have an abortion by the time they are 45 years old. That's only 35%! We teach women that they must be in control of their bodies, and yet we shove religious and political views down their throat and label them murderers because they ended a pregnancy that was not planned. There are women who's pregnancies were not planned due to rape. You're going to tell a woman that she has to carry this baby, for 9 months, after a traumatic event? And then raise the child a full 18+ years because you say she has to? That's not right, and it's not ethical to put that burden on a woman. I agree that their are other options such as adoption, but then again you have people saying how placing your child into adoption is negligence and also irresponsible. Plus, not every child gets placed into a loving home. Some are placed into the system and they grow up in hardships. Approximately 120,000 children are adopted each year in the United States. Only 120,000 children. Yes, it is a great number, but compare that to the number of pregnant women in the United States today. Not every child is lucky enough to be adopted.
 Abortion is not an answer to everybody's problem, but then again it is not the church's or government's voice that matters when it concerns a woman and her body. It is a good resource to have when a woman is sure that this is the way she wants to proceed. Taking that away would just bring the world in a crisis and backdoor abortions would be back in business because the world couldn't accept a U.S. citizen's personal choice.