Reply #89: Here are some more reasons why a woman would abort

[Nobody]

and there's no way I can list them all. How many of them can you eliminate?

Rape. This includes by family members. Not after the fact, before the fact, before man attacks woman. By the way, a woman practicing abstinence has just had abstinence fail in the most traumatic way a method of birth control can fail.

Ectopic pregnancies.

Things going horribly wrong during the third trimester, such as fetus dying. By the way, the "pro-lofe" element do NOT want a woman with a dead fetus aborting. You see, they don't have access to her ultrasound so they don't KNOW FOR SURE the fetus is dead.

Physical problems that result in the baby's life expectancy to be measured in days, not years. Every woman and family's mileage varies widely on this one. Many women and families would insist on having the child. In no way does this require them to do things they way I would. I haven't been deified yet. But some women and families do make the decision to abort for this reason.

Birth control failure and a previous decision never to have children. Pregnancy does not change the personality of most women. I do know a few who detested children until they became pregnant, not they go around telling every woman who dislikes children that they should have one anyway, they'll feel different when its their own. GaaaaK! I say GaaaaK! because women who dislike children should never become mothers.

This is a far from complete list. Anyone else probably knows someone who has a reason they could add on to this list.

The point is, there are reasons behind abortion that go beyond what is possible to fix.
As long as you have no plans to make abortion harder to get, and no plans to second-guess a decision women have already given quite a lot of thought about before the decision became applicable, and no plans to interfere with a woman's autonomy, or to make her live the way you want her to, then I'm with you on alleviating economic conditions. I was for that before, and I'm still for that. For me, economic issues stand on their own. We should ALL make living wages, get plenty of time off to live our lives, be able to set aside enough to retire on. Health care should be a right, not a privilege for the weathy few. Adults and children.