How abortion bans make inequality worse

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If you want to stop abortions, don't start by making them illegal. Start by fixing the problems that lead to abortions: poverty, insufficient childcare resources, etc. It feels like we care more about the unborn child than the living child and parent.

All of this doesn’t even begin to mention necessary abortions for miscarriages. My mom was pregnant again when I was 9, but that pregnancy just straight up failed. Fetus had died for unknown reasons after 4 months. My mom had to get an abortion in order to remove it. Complete abortion bans would have ruined her health.

As someone who is currently looking for an apartment with my 2 month old son, it’s not easy to do child rearing. I never wanted an abortion. But you quickly realize how the society is not prepared for children. Edit: ad hominem is an argumentative fallacy used to attack an individual instead of the argument. The fact that individuals assume my life based on a few words I commented on a YouTube video, is jarring and that’s why issues like these are still talked about!

If you look back at history a pattern shows up: if you ban something that everybody wants, it instead becomes unsafe and unregulated (Ex: prohibition. Instead of stopping people from drinking, they just started making their own drinks, and there was no longer any kind of minimum drinking age.). An abortion ban would have a similar effect. Illegal imports, unsafe methods of abortion, etc.

All this in a country without guaranteed healthcare or paid parental leave.

"If someone tells you they're not ready to carry a pregnancy to term, they're not. Believe them." This made me so emotional. I wasn't ready. I knew that. I was so, so lucky to be believed, and to receive abortion care. I can tell you with absolute certainty that my outcomes were better because I received that care.

This only comes to show that abortion is not just a pro-life or pro-choice matter, because the consequences of a pregnancy don't simply end by giving birth, and that's particularly valid in countries without strong social system. It's a matter of taking responsibility, having the resources (incl. financial) and being able to commit long-term - so many things men can easily escape by simply leaving. I just cannot understand how decision makers in the politics/judicial system don't see that.

Making childcare accessible and free is important, secondly allow women to take more parental leave , childcare leave with pay. Raising a child is no joke, harder if you are a single parent.

Something this also highlighted is how fathers are not held to the same standard as mothers. And how the system set up in our country don’t hold fathers accountable. The mother is de facto parent. And that happens regardless. As somebody who divorced my son’s father, and he was planned, I am still dealing with a father who is not present and not financially supportive.

It's almost like if we don't make sure people can afford to be parents, they they try to avoid becoming parents. Who'd'a thunk? IDK, maybe if we want fewer abortions, we should have extensive support systems like universal healthcare, free childcare, paid parental leave, et cetera.

Forcing people to go against their wishes, whether to keep a child or abort a child, causes so much trauma. That’s why not giving people the ability to choose really shackles their lives.

the people who made these laws have never been impoverished. never been without food, electricity, or a roof over their head. just give them to foster care!!! like are you so detached from reality that u think being abused/r*ped in the system until u age out is beneficial to anyone??? 1 in 3 homeless ppl in AZ are children who aged out of the system

Just wanted to mention that not all abortions are because of unwanted pregnancies

as in the book Freakonomics, Steven D Levitt says that when crime was peaking in 70's and 80's in the USA and suddenly dropped in the early 90's and people suddenly grappling for explanations. Many were floated around. Better policing, stricter punishment for criminals, a growing economy and a myriad of other reasons. But the true reason was the Roe v Wade decision in 73 that made abortions legal for all in the USA. This led to women of colour, of poor economic background, material abusers and all others who had unwanted or unplanned pregnancies get an abortion. But before that, they had to have a child. And that child was more likely to become a criminal because of the mother's background and subsequent parenting. hence crime was in a growth. but by late 80's, the children who would have been born if abortion wasn't legalized would be in their late teens. An age where they would be at their criminal peak committing violent crimes. This led to low criminal population in all. hence the drop in crime rates. Its true that overturning Roe v Wade sent USA by 50 years. But in 20 years, if it isnt overturned back again, we will see higher crimes and more violent crimes.

Things i didnt even think about until this video: 1) Mourning a life and a career without the responsibility and burden of an unwanted pregnancy/child. 2) Being able to leave a relationship without having to consider a child/family being impacted

i think a huge factor in this is that fathers aren’t held accountable. it takes two to have a child. and as a man, i’m disappointed with the amount of men that don’t step up and take care of their own child. it’s cowardly and should be punished.

Fix your healthcare, America. Many of these people won't even seek abortion anymore. The medical expenses in the US are a joke to humanity!

From a European's perspective, the US is just one giant clown show

Everyone needs to come to terms with the fact that people who are pro-forced birth just don't care. They know the realities of the struggles these women will have to experience and they don't care. They know that this will lead to more people being stuck in poverty, they just don't care. You cannot reason with these people, no new information will matter, they have the information and they still just don't care.