Some of you have a very distorted view of what would happen to unwanted children who would be born if abortion was banned. Very, very few would be brought into the world and lead a good life with their biological parents. People who don't want children aren't gonna miraculously change their mind and treat their kids like a child that is actually wanted. Others just say put them up for adoption, like that would fix the problem. I've been reading some stats and they aren't pretty. More than 60% of the children in foster care spend 2-5 years in the system. That number gets exponentially larger for disabled and minority children. 20% spend over 5 years in the system and over 17,000 kids a year exit foster care without ever being adopted. On any given day, there are over 125,000 kids in foster care. The majority of which can never return to their biological families. In 2020 the government spent over $5 billion on foster care.

We also see story after story of the abuse cases of unwanted children and children in foster care. It's a never ending cycle, because there aren't enough case workers in America. It's a thankless job that pays next to nothing, you see horrendous things and workers are overloaded to completely unreal amounts of case loads. If abortion is made illegal again, the numbers of abused and murdered children will skyrocket and the foster care system will become even more broken than it is now. Which I didn't know was possible. You will see more deaths from back alley abortions, more children murdered, more children abused and more children abandoned. That's simply a fact. IMO, it's selfish to force children into such existences. Sure, a small percentage will go onto be adopted and live good lives, but given how many children are already in bad situations, adding to that amount just seems cruel.

I know some of you say abortion is murder, but the fact is, not everyone sees this as a reality. This country is completed divided over when a person actually becomes a person. That is never gonna change. You'll never convince some people to agree with you no matter how right everyone believes they are. It's just pushing your belief system onto other people and I'm completely against that. That is something the Taliban would do. They are inflicting their beliefs on everyone in Afghanistan and I think we can all agree that this is a bad thing. Why is it ok to inflict your beliefs on people in this situation and not in that one? As I said, not everyone views when a person becomes a person, in the same way. It's an individual belief, but some people want to force others into abiding by their beliefs by banning abortion.

No one likes abortion. I wish it wasn't necessary, but you will NEVER force people into being responsible, no matter how much you try to make them. That is just a fact. By forcing them to carry the children, only the kids will suffer. Many will be born to parents that see them as a burden and they will either be treated poorly by their biological parents/parent, will be abandoned by a parent, murdered by a parent or will be placed into an already broken system, that can't handle the amount of children that are already there. I just don't understand how these are good options? To me, it's a necessary evil. People are given free will. In that, some people will make good decisions and others will make many poor life choices. That's just how life is. When you have free will, you must take the good with the bad.

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