I support abortion rights. [I Am For Abortion]

Here are my top 5 reasons:
1.) A fetus lacks consciousness, and the mental capacity to be a person.
2.) Allowing women to choose makes them more equal to men.
3.) It gives women the freedom to pursue their dreams.
4.) Women who get abortions are less likely to end up in poverty or abusive situations.
5.) Legal abortion reduces poverty, crime, and other negative externalities.

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Thecollective · 100+

There are so many factors that may cause a woman or a girl to seek this option.
Health related concerns for themselves and the baby should it be born.
Whether it was nonconsensual sex that got them pregnant. I think it's wrong to expect someone who has already suffered to carry then give birth to a reminder of what another did to them without their consent regardless if they put the child up for adoption it's still 9 months, 9 months that could be used to heal rather than carry their rapists child.

How about circumstances some people are either not financially stable or are in a toxic relationship how many stories have there been of children ending up dying due to neglect and abuse? If the woman is trapped in such a situation the child will also be.
For the argument of don't have sex if you don't want a child sometimes things go wrong and a lot of the beliefs that are against abortion funnily enough sometimes oppose birth control.

But honestly the main point is it's a right to choose. who are any of us to say what someone can and can't do to their own body? Can you really say you have a greater right to deny someone that right to choose?