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Anonymous
Imagine a life growing up poor and unwanted with a teenage mother who had you simply because she got unlucky while losing her verginity. You're mother's life has gone to hell because she now has to drop out of school and get a job just to keep you fed and alive, nevermind healthy and happy. Her family has disowned her because of being so "open" with her sexuality even though she didn't know any better, and both your life and hers are miserable and yet you can't do anything about it because you're too young to know what's going on. When you finally realize that there was a simpler way out before you were concious and learning, before you saw the light of day and began making decisions or living a real life unteathered to another living being, a way out that would save your mother an agonizing and miserable life at the expense of your currently miserable life, wouldn't you take it, regardless of what some overly-religious people that aren't in your shoes says? I would.
Many people who have abortions do so because they cannot afford to raise their child, either due to monetary status, being to young or simply not having the responsibility to carry it out, so I believe it's perfectly acceptible to avoid bringing another human into this world to save them and you from a life of misfortune and misery. Regardless of how concious the baby is of its surroundings or how truly alive you claim it to be, it has not yet begun to learn of the world, act on its own or live dependant of its mother, so I do not believe that it should be considered murderous to end its life before its natural birth to prevent it from coming into the world unwanted.
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