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People make mistakes, and while generally it's a good idea to make people live with those mistakes, chances are a child that isn't wanted won't lead a happy life.
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The above article is about a study that was conducted on "hundreds of foster-care youths from age 17 and 18 through age 23 or 24." According to this study, 60% of the males were convicted of crimes, nearly 25% of all the youths never finished high school, and only 48% had jobs by the age of 24 (the median annual pay of that 48% was only $8,000 a year).
Chances are, if a parent isn't in a situation where they can raise a child, that child will be sent to foster care. If not, many are born to mothers who are still in school, and who will therefore not likely be able to finish college. If you can't get a degree, chances are you're not going to find a high paying job, and won't be able to support your family.
There is the rare exception where maybe a close relative will take care of the child, or will help pay for the child, but that would really be the only situation where I wouldn't condone an abortion for an unprepared mother.
At what point do we consider an unborn fetus a life? Vegetarians eat eggs because they have not yet developed into living creatures. But they would have eventually become chickens. Eating an egg and denying that it's taking a life is just like aborting and denying that it's taking a life. (I think I had more planned with this analogy, but I had a brain fart... Take from it what you will, I'm sure there's something convincing in there... maybe :confused
Not to mention that the world is having overpopulation problems, too. Why bring an extra life into this world if you're not planning on caring for it?
Combined with my thoughts on the death penalty, I must seem like a great guy.