Congrats. You convinced your friend to [b][i][u]MURDER HER BABY HUMAN[/u][/i][/b]. Does that put things in a different light? [spoiler]Probably not.[/spoiler]

Dear Diary, today I learned that 90% of Offtopic has never even seen a picture of a human infant/fetus, much less been close enough to a baby to feel compassion for one. All of you pro choicers need more loving parents because you were obviously neglected as a child.

I do love this debate... It's one I feel I'm actually well versed enough to hold legit conversations about. Fetuses are as much babies as acorns are full grown trees (I.E. they're not). They're also not sentient within most parts of the pregnancy, nor are they bigger than an adult thumb for quite a while. Terminating a fetus is every bit as much of killing a baby as stepping on an acorn is chopping down a tree (again, it's not). You're killing an insentient, unfeeling (early on), unthinking blob of cells. Keeping abortions legal also prevents women from seeking back alley abortions which are incredibly dangerous to the mothers. As has come out in the news lately, roughly 5,000 women died from illegal abortions the year before they were legalized. Criminalizing abortions doesn't stop them; it ends up costing [i]more[/i] lives. Is this to say [i]all [/i] crime should be allowed because you can't stop it? No. That said, the dangers of outlawing this act outweigh the benefits. Having mothers potentially die in illegal abortions, children ending up in overcrowded adoption systems, or families crushed under the debt of caring for a child they couldn't afford are [i]not[/i] favorable outcomes to allowing a woman to control whether or not she wants children. It's also not favorable to use force a life to exist and potentially be miserable as "punishment" to parents who are [i]trying[/i] to do the responsible thing and wait on having a child. You want to know what the proper way to prevent abortions is? Teach safe sex and provide easy access to contraceptives to the group that ends up pregnant the most: teenagers. The more they know about sex, and the more access they have to means of preventing pregnancies, the fewer unwanted pregnancies you'll have. Period. That means fewer abortions in this country. [url=http://time.com/3956781/women-abortion-regret-reproductive-health/]Oh, and women [i]don't[/i] tend to regret abortions.[/url] Planning your family to have kids when you want them/are ready for them is probably the best thing you can do, not to mention the fact that banning abortions is ultimately violating the bodily sovereignty of a woman in favor of the aforementioned insentient, unthinking blob of cells. I know OP's story didn't really happen and this is an utterly terrible click-bait thread, but I feel the pro-choice side needs to be represented here, so I'll do just that.

If only there had of been someone to convince your mother...

She was going to keep the abortion? Good thing you talked her out of it.

congrats! You probably just made her get the thing she'll regret most in life.

Anyone who says abortion is as bad as murder is a fgt

Your Fúcked up [spoiler]kids in Africa could've ate that[/spoiler]

I eat abortions. I love em and I squeeze em To me their all the same They don't don't even kno my name They call me the succ fish I roam around around around around

You wasted a perfectly good meal

Dismantle babies, yessss?