Abortion
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In this day and age no matter where you go, or whom you talk to, if you mention abortion there is a good chance that you will start up a heated debate. Everyone has their own view on things, but this topic is one of the few where people personally believe that their views are the right ones, and yours are, no matter what they are, wrong.
I, personally, believe in pro-choice. I understand that many people out there with the knowledge of me saying my stance will either want to agree with me and have a discussion about it, or they will want to argue it to the proverbial death. There is no chance of ever just saying if you are pro-choice or pro-life and leave it at that. There must be some unwritten law out there that I am not aware of saying that when you mention some controversial topic like gay marriage or abortion you must have a minimum of a ten minute discussion or argument, depending on the stance of the people present, on it.
With the topic of abortion no matter what point you use it can be turned around to be in favor of the other group. For instance, there are over four thousand abortions in the United States daily, that is almost one and a half million un-born lives yearly. A pro-choice person, like myself, would say that since the world is already way over populated those abortions would make one less would-be child that could go hungry, one less job taken up, and one less person to reproduce yet again. With every abortion we take one small step towards fighting the lack of food to distribute across the population of the world, unemployment, and over population. On the other hand, a pro-life person would point out that with every abortion there is a chance of losing the person to cure aids, cancer, or mental disorders.
On average, most women that have abortions are generally very young. Many are still going to school and are in no position to have a child to support. For those women most pro-life people would bring up the point of still having the child and then putting him/her up for adoption, so that in that way at least the child has a chance to live their lives. Although if all four thousand children that are aborted a day are put into the adoption centers not only would the already over crowded homes be even more crowded, but who is actually going to adopt that many children.
If the woman has the child then decides to keep the child, and not put him/her up for adoption, then that person has limited