Is abortion a social good?

This is a sensible post I have read and want to share with all of my friends and happy bloggers. It’s a unique and one of its kinds I have read in the last few days. So go through it and have you answers, if you like to share something on this topic and post.

Where the turnaways had more significant negative outcomes was in their physical health and economic stability. Because new mothers are eligible for government programs, Foster thought that they might have better health over time. But women in the turnaway group suffered more ill effects, including higher rates of Hypertension and Chronic Pelvic Pain (though Foster cannot say whether turnaways face greater risk from pregnancy than an average woman). Even “later abortions are significantly safer than childbirth”, and “through lower complications and low incidence of chronic conditions.” (In the National Right to Life’s five-part response to preliminary findings of Foster’s study, which were presented at the American Public Health Association conference last year, the group noted that the ill effects of abortion - future miscarriage, breast cancer, infertility - may become apparent only later. Reputable research does not support such claims.)

Economically, the results are even more striking. Adjusting for any previous differences between the two groups, women denied abortion were three times as likely to end up below the federal poverty line two years later. Having a child is expensive, and many mothers have trouble holding down a job while caring for an infant. Had the turnaways not had access to public assistance for women with newborns, Foster says, they would have experienced greater hardship.

I think there’s a tremendous argument for abortion as a social good. No one wants to frame it that way because it’s so icky, and I don’t support abortion past viability, and I don’t personally believe in abortion anyway. But women who are able to plan their pregnancies have more control over their lives, their futures. That’s just the way it is. Deny them the procedure and you deny them this freedom, while at the same time imposing costs on a society that cannot afford it.
There’s a pretty self-evident economic answer here. If only, that provided easy moral answers, as well.

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Reference: http://lancasteronline.com/blogs/smartremarks/2013/06/20/is-abortion-a-social-good/