At 7/1/06 06:39 PM, natwel wrote:
I'm definately pro choice. a child costs about £5000 a year to raise
Maybe if you feed the child dog food and cloth them with dish rags.
and if you are a teen you can't really afford that.
Actually a teen living in a one bedroom apartment with no car could afford about 6,300 USD on a child a year. Not to mention the tax deductions, child payments from the father (assuming he left, which in a lot of cases teen fathers do).
In the states the lowest minimum wage is $3.20 an hour. If they drop out of school then thats about $192.00 a week, or if you have another job for an additonal 5 hours (thats work from 6 AM to 9 PM) than thats 96$ more a week. $1152 a month, $13824 a year. And thats on the lowest salary, where I live the minimum wage is 5.40 (last I heard) so a teen would be able to afford it. But they would have to work over 4300 hours a year.
But killing a foetus is like killing an insect it's not gonna do any major damage is it?
The argument is not that it wont hurt the foetus or society, but that the child could potentially become something. It could have a good life, or a horrible one.
I personally am a little bit of both. If a women gets knocked up on accident (to lazy to use condoms, or something else that could have easily been done) but can afford the child, then she has to keep it (or adoption). But say a teenager gets raped, or has a child at an early age could be allowed to get an abortion.
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