So you're saying that we need abortion as a societal crutch for the fact ghetto culture promotes rape and unsafe sex? Sorry, but I prefer prevention over a 'cure' that just causes more deaths.
Why do you think "ghetto" culture exists in the first place? When children are born to people without the resources to take care of them, they're way more likely to commit crimes as adults. Poor sex ed and lack of access to family planning tools are what perpetuate the cycle of kids born without fathers or to teenage mothers.
One of the most common reasons women cite for having abortions is the need to care for children they already have. It's kind of bizarre to me that a lot of the same people who complain about welfare queens are the ones that encourage women to have more children than they have the means to care for. If you force women to have these kids they can't afford, guess who's gonna end up subsidizing their needs? Taxpayers.
This is one way in which opposition to abortion does not jibe with fiscal conservatism. Children cost the state money, especially at-risk, impoverished, disabled, and orphaned ones. The need for the foster system, welfare, public schools, and food stamps increases dramatically when more unplanned children are born. This is to say nothing of the increased risk of criminality children born to teenage mothers of in poverty exhibit; taxpayers also subsidize public defenders, the court system, juvenile hall, and the prison system. Long story short, lack of access to abortion translates to a greater need for large government, so it doesn't make sense to oppose abortion and support small government.
The actual question at the heart of this discussion is not whether a fetus is a person, it's whether it's better to be born into a life of suffering or not at all. There's no objective answer to that-- it's philosophical. However, the issue of public finance lends it more objectivity. When you factor in the suffering these unwanted children create for others, the question is now, "is it better to be born into a life that
creates suffering, or not at all?" My answer to that would obviously be the latter.
If we illegalize murder, people will do it anyway in unsafe ways!!!
That's how you sound right now to the people you're trying to persuade. Pro-choicers and pro-lifers fundamentally do not speak the same language on this issue--they simply do not use the same definitions. Hence endless circular argument autism like the past 345 pages of this thread.
This is a great example of the philosophical thing I touched on. There is no objective answer to when a zygote becomes a "person." The more relevant question here is what the entity arbitrating this issue (in this case the U.S. government) defines as a person. The answer to that one is pretty easy-- the government doesn't give you a social security number or any official documentation of your existence until you're born.
It's worth mentioning as well that under no other circumstance is a person required to donate their body for the sake of saving another person's. You're not required to be an organ donor or join the military, even though it's noble to sacrifice your life for others. Women are the only exception to that. If abortion was outlawed, we would be required by law to give our blood, our own safety, and potentially our lives to protect another's. That's not logically consistent with the other laws dictating bodily autonomy in our country.