ia and severe diabetes, and other illnesses that can be life-threatening, the availability of legal abortion has helped avert serious medical complications that could have resulted from childbirth. Before legal abortion, such women's choices were limited to dangerous illegal abortion or dangerous childbirth. In a case-controlled study women whose own health is compromised during pregnancy are more likely to miscarry and to deliver babies who are sick. Their babies are also more likely to die after birth.Women's Health, Am Journal of Public Health, and Demography, all stated that women whose pregnancies are unwanted are less likely to get prenatal care, more likely to use cigarettes, alcohol, and drugs during their pregnancies, more likely to be abused by their partners, and more likely to give birth to low-birth weight, sick babies, as well as not to breast-feed. The Demography believed that This is not simply a correlation with ethnic or socioeconomic status rather than pregnancy wantedness, because women who abort one pregnancy are more likely to have a healthy baby in the next pregnancy, and some of the poor outcomes persist even when correcting for race and income level. 3. A woman is more than a fetus. There's an argument these days that a fetus is a "person" that is "indistinguishable from the rest of us" and that it deserves rights equal to women's. On this question there is a tremendous spectrum of religious,...
