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Poverty, Foster Care, and Abuse are Not Reasons to Kill Babies in Abortions

As a pro-life advocate, have you ever heard pro-choice people argue that access to legal abortion is necessary because of difficult or traumatic circumstances like poverty, bad foster care experiences, or child abuse?These arguments often sound something like this:“Banning abortion would mean that women will be forced to carry unwanted pregnancies and give birth in situations where they’re just not prepared to be a parent or to have another child. Babies will be born into households with drug ad