The number of abortion each year around the world is unknown. Estimates have ranged from twelve million to fifty-five million but the figures are unknown because of the illegal abortions that happened. Among the countries present legal status of abortion “ranges from complete prohibition to elective abortion at the request of the women”(tietze 25). “An amendment would state the pro-life view: that the fetus is a person from the moment of the conception (jakobson).” So if anyone who abort or helps abort could be guilty of murder. Groups led by National Right to life committee is generally opposed to abortion unless the “mother is in danger or the women is a victim of rape or incest (jakobson 72).” Once a woman has a fetus inside her, she has some abortion …show more content…
If anti-abortionists actually want to reduce the number of abortions they can do so by making abortion alternative’s as viable and interesting as possible. Pregnant women do get abortions for understandable reasons as poverty, poor health, and a general inability to find care for the child, but if programs help the women get through it then she won’t have to have an abortion. The bottom line is if there was nobody waiting to adopt, killing children would still not be justifiable solution to “unwantedness (abortion alternatives).” Information and counseling about adoption and scarcely available in the context of family planning. Family planners push abortion not adoption. With so many babies being aborted, who would otherwise been adopted many adoptive families are turn to “special needs”(abortion alternatives) and international adoptions. “During the past two decades, most striking change has been the increase in special needs adoption (abortion alternatives).” Because not everyone wants a special needs child so they hardly get