Tough issue, as a parent I say no, as a realist I do see the validity of what vrai says. If they really don't want a child it will probably grow up deprived in a poor and broken home. My former step-daughter is a prime example. She went on a hump fest after being booted out of college and is now a welfare queen in HUD housing on every "dole list" imaginable at 20. Is her baby wonderful, of course, honestly does it have a chance at having a good life? Statistically probably not. Would it ever if she had waited until further along in life to get pregnant, NO I think not because of character.
Where does it become a problem? Well when I was a kid we had it very tough, relatively poor, a struggle, but I only remember it as great. As a kid you don't really care that you had salmon patties again last night. Where the problem comes is what the parents teach them and how involved they are. Hence the delinquents replentish the loser list faster than they die off. My theory is that although the libs love to equate financial status to the chance a person will grow up to be a useful member of society and not the rat ba$tard who carjacks your Aunt when she goes to town, it is not. I think it is character instead. Social programs can give the poor money but they cannot give them character. As long as people use unprotected sex as a cheap form of entertainment and produce unwanted, unloved, potential delinquents there will be a pro choice argument and abortion will remain. HOWEVER, in our society we cannot round up the legitimate proven losers who contribute nothing to humanity but grief and pain and shoot them like cattle, why should we allow it before birth just because they have "potential" to be losers. Hell no one can predict what someone will be in utero. Hence since society will never be given the right to make you go to a board and prove yourself worthy of being a parent first there will always be children born to people who really didn't want to be parents.
Do I feel it is right to tell someone that the choice they made to have an "early first trimester" abortion rather than have a baby during bad circumstances and make their contribution to the "potential losers list" no not really. I have to admit while chosing an abortion is nothing to be congratulated or praised, I has a higher opinion of them than I do one who veiws a pregnancy as a revenue generator.
Still it is a human life and should be cherished. I really wished that our society would become so responsible that this issue would just go away due to it not being needed, but it will not. So if it must be that abortion is a part of our society it must have tighter controls to make it more palitable to me.
1. NO abortions on underage girls without parental consent.
2. NO abortions without the fathers consent. It's his baby too and he should have the option of raising the child himself if the mother doesn't want it.
3. NO abortions past first trimester unless the mothers life is at risk.
4. Madatory depo shots for 5 years or 25 years of age if you chose an abortion. Male birth control shot for the sperm donator if they can make one.
I am against abortion but it will never go away. Maybe if we made this harder it will make a difference.