Over the Past 18 years America has seen 27 million abortions but some are still asking if this is moral and should we allow such procedures to take place? Do we have the right to tell someone they must have a baby? Should we have the power to shape ones destiny and destroy a mature life? The answer is no, Rules should be applied but abortion should remain legal. We do not have the right to tell people what to do with their lives that is their own free will.
             Picture a single girl 16-24 that works two jobs just trying to pay the rent and struggling financially. Now picture this girl six months down the road with a young child. This girl wanted an abortion but it was illegal so she is now set even further behind due to the new addition. Some will say that it would have been unfair to the child if it were to be aborted they said it has a right to live. Would being aborted really have been so unfair to the child? Now it will live in poverty and most likely will never have a father because his mother is being over worked.
             I also believe it is unfair to the community for a child to be raised in such an environment. Law professors at Stanford and the University of Chicago showed in the Newsweek magazine that since Abortion was legalized in New York, California, Washington, Hawaii, and Alaska the murder rate has fallen faster than anytime since prohibition in 1933. Homicide rates have fallen by 40% and violent crime is down by 30%. These states with extremely high abortion rates in the 1970's have seen an enormous drop in crime in the 1990's. This just goes to show a child's environment often has a lot to do with what the child will become.
             On the other hand I can see how pro-lifers can say that pro-abortionist have taken 27 million babies lives in 18 years because of there procedures. It is still not right to illegalise abortion because according to the study stated before the crime rate would be muc
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