Pro-Choice Views:
Pro-choice advocates feel that abortion is justified if the woman does not want the pregnancy. One of the core beliefs is that it is better to abort the fetus rather than have it born into a life of neglect. Another view maintains that the fetus is not a life therefore abortion is not killing anything. The "not a life" excuse is one of the most common arguments used by pro-choice advocates, regardless of the fact that according to every biological definition of life, a fetus is alive from the moment of conception.
Others believe that a woman deserves the right to control her body and whatever is in it, and if they wish to have an abortion then it is their business and not the government's issue.
Another staple pro-choice claim is that if abortion were legal, women would instead turn to "dangerous back-alley abortions" which can put the mother's life at risk. Thus, abortion must be legal to save lives. Hypocrisy anyone?? Dr. Bernard Nathanson admits he inflated the number of women who died from illegal abortion when testifying before the Supreme Court in 1972: "We spoke of 5,000 - 10,000 deaths a year. I confess that I knew the figures were totally false . . . it was a useful figure, widely accepted, so why go out of our way to correct it with honest statistics?"
Pro-Choice activists also claim that abortion reduces the number of unwanted children and eases strain on adoption agencies, thereby making the number of unwanted children drastically smaller.
Another Pro-choice belief is the necessity of an abortion if a woman has been raped. They believe that women who become pregnant from cases of rape should have the right to abort the child that results from that rape.