Debate discussion !!

Pro-Abortion




Despite the fact that the teen birth rate is climbing after slowly falling for years, there are still an estimated one million teen pregnancies in the United States alone. About 85% of these pregnancies are unplanned, which in any population can increase the risk for problems. The biggest risk for teen mothers is delaying prenatal care or worse, 7.2% received no care at all.Stated on an article written by Robin Elise Weiss .The fact that just under 1/3 of all girls in the United States will get pregnant in their teenage years is a sobering thought. Obviously, teen pregnancy is a problem in the United States. And the following statistics back that up:

• Every year around 750,000 teenagers will get pregnant.
• Depending on the state, teenage birth rates are incredibly different. Nevada has the highest rate: 113 per 1000 and North Dakota the lowest 42 per 1000.
• Unmarried teenagers having children account for 24 percent of all unmarried expectant mothers.
• More than 2/3 of all teenagers who have a baby will not graduate from high school.
• Billions of dollars are spent taking care of teenage mothers and their children and they are more likely to be in the poverty bracket.

74% say having a baby would interfere with work, school or responsibilities.
73% say they cannot afford to have a child
48% say they are having relationship, and don’t want to be a single parent
2% say that they become pregnant as a result of rape or incest

But at the end of the day if a child is depressed there going to kill themselves any way, so wouldn’t you not want to put them through there misery.  So if killing a baby is bad don’t you think putting a child through abuse or foster system would be just as bad ?



Sources:

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, healthfinder.gov, Teen Pregnancies, Abortions Drop from 1990 to 2004
U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health, MedlinePlus Medical Encyclopedia, Adolescent Pregnancy [online]
March of Dimes, Professionals and Researchers Quick Reference: Fact Sheets, Teenage Pregnancy, October 2007 [online]
Ventura SJ, Abma JC, Mosher WD, Henshaw SK. Recent trends in teenage pregnancy in the United States, 1990-2002. Health E-stats. Hyattsville, MD: National Center for Health Statistics. Released December 13, 2006.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, A National Strategy to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Annual Report 1997-1998, June 1998 [online]
The National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, Teen Pregnancy: So What? October 2006 [online]