With adoption a person can be put in a toxic environment in which they can be abused. Furthermore they can have feelings of inadequacy and abandonment.
Life’s a bitch.
Huh. So you got sexually harassed at work today. Welp, can’t do anything about that. Life’s a bitch.
Using “they might have it rough” as an excuse for abortion isn’t legitimate to me. Essentially, it is saying that there isn’t anything you can do. Just terminate it.
I’m sure there are a lot of people who would prefer death over living life with the cards they have been dealt. Further more in my point of view non existence is preferable to a meager one. But that’s pretty much a completely separate topic.
Is it fair to make that decision for them? I know a lot of people who have lived through serious difficulties and are happy to be alive. Some people have lived miserable lives for the first 20 years of their lives, but decent and even good lives after that.
Let’s say we make an exception for that. What about abortions that are for the sake of not wanting a child?
Again, my answer depends on the circumstances. Circumstances such as a condom ripping, the birth control is inept and a guy either forcibly or secretly nutting inside of a girl warrants an abortion if that is the woman’s desire.
This site references a survey that reports 17% of women who had abortions as having stated it was because contraception failed (I’m not sure exactly how reliable the survey was, but I’ve heard similar numbers before):
http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html
If that is indeed the case, and even if it’s just something like 6% of women aborting their pregnancy for that reason, does it not seem safer just to abstain from sex if one absolutely cannot have a child?