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Don't judge another person's life until you've been forced to live it!

For every minute that goes by a woman no matter where in the world she is, is currently making a decision that would alter her role in society for the rest of her life!  Whether it is to become a mother or get rid of her unborn child and continue with her life as normal.Many reasons may circulate as to why a woman may want an abortion because they feel emotionally or financially unprepared to enter parenthood and raise a child; conceiving a child through incest or rape or having the child and giving it up for adoption. These reasons are only a few of what women have to consider though it may seem as if they’re doing it for themselves that may not be the case. “Of course abortion isn’t right. But it is even less right to bring unwanted children into lifelong suffering and to strip women of their choice. Making abortion illegal is not the way to prevent it. There is a much larger picture that starts with much deeper roots.” Anonymous.

In today’s society it’s clear to see that the word abortion is not as taboo as it once was but the emotions and feelings that come with the word is still the same. If a mother is already living an unhealthy lifestyle or is financially unstable, bringing a child into a corrupt world is cruel. That would be unfair to the child having been born into a situation they cannot control, but have to grow up and live with. For example a woman who has a drug or alcohol problem. If she’s not going to stop, the child ends up adapting to their mother's actions and basically raised to be used for the DPB (domestic purposes benefit) until they’re 18. Therefore it is selfish of the mother to bring her child up where she cannot provide the necessities they need to have a good start in life.  Every child is entitled to the right of a good life with parents who are willing to take on that role, not use the child as a scape-goat for things they need.  If the mother or parents cannot provide, they are doing the child a favour by not bringing them up in an environment that they are already struggling to live in.

“I am pro-choice but I find that abortion is failure of the feminist establishment. With every kind of birth control available around the world,abortion is not something to be proud of. If you need an abortion, you’ve failed”Tammy Bruce. But is that the same for the woman who was impregnated through rape or incest? Women who are victims of these assaults often seek abortions. The rape was unplanned/unwanted and nobody goes out looking for it; unfortunately there are those who do encounter it and get the foetus implanted along the way. Here the mother must decide whether she is inhumane for wanting to get rid of something that she had no intention of having till later on in life.Sadly as a foetus has no birth certificate, it isn’t classified as a being so it is not considered murder. If she has the child the baby grows up without a father figure and with many questions! She could give her child everything they could ever want and love them endlessly but is forced to relive the darkest time of her life everyday through her child. It is not fair nor is it okay for a woman to have the burden of keeping the child beyond her will, otherwise rape would not be illegal; if it was illegal to force her into sex, then why should it not be illegal to force her to stay pregnant? In both situations another person is deprived (rape- not letting the man express his biological urges, abortion- not letting the foetus live).

Though statistics have recently shown that in the end of 2009 there was a decrease in the numbers of abortions happening in New Zealand. There is no decrease in opinions from those who are against abortions. Adoption is one way to try and solve the problem but is it right for the mother to carry the child till full term then abandon that child into adoption? In doing so they are making an irreversible decision on the part of the child, a decision that is likely to cause that child a huge and long lasting pain; pain that can be caused if they are not chosen by families to be adopted they're then moved to different foster homes every few months; this foster system where they are taken in by families that don’t care about them but only for the money that comes with the child. A child needs love and not a place to stay til they are legal enough to fend for themselves. Many children go about with this pain as it leaves a longer struggle to overcome compared to that short lived pain to the foetus, which unfortunately isn’t considered a child until it can sustain its own functions outside of the womb. When a mother abandons her child to adoption for whatever the reason, they are condemning that child to whatever comes good or bad.  An adopted person will feel a lifetime of struggle for being abandoned by his or her mother. Though they may have loving adoptive parents the thoughts of what could have been will continuously run through that child’s mind.

In the final analysis, one may think they’re dead against abortions because of their religion or their parents beliefs but they don’t see it from an unbiased point of view first.Whatever the reasons may be, whether because of a serious financial situation or an unborn child being conceived the wrong way, leaves that child with a life of adoption and no knowledge of how their future may play out. If a woman wants an abortion it’s her right as a human to be allowed one. Yes, this is pro death for the fetus, but it is pro choice for the woman. A woman's body is her own, “No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.” Margaret Sanger.

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http://www.notable-quotes.com/a/abortion_quotes.html

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http://www.positive.org/JustSayYes/abortion.html