This thread is taking on an age of consent debate. What percent of abortions are of those of girls under the age of 18? If you look on the CDC website you will see the ages of abortions by age in the past 27 years. In 2000 the percentage of abortions by girls under 19 years of age was 18.8. To me that low of a percentage is not a reason to base your abortion laws on if your forcing someone who is young to be responsible for their actions. Additionally the laws can and most likely would be written to account for minors who were pregnant, starting at the youngest age a girl could get pregnant to the time of adulthood. My guess is they would use a graduated scale that went by age to determine if the girl needed the concent of the parent to get an abortion or not.

Now as far as making someone responsible for their actions. Women over the age of 25 made up 48.4 percent of abortions in 2000. I feel that if your not smart enough to go to the doctor get birth control, or require your partner to use a condom by the age of 25, then yes, you should be held accountable for your actions. Does that mean I feel women over 25 shouldn't be allowed to have an abortion. No, it means I think it should be finacially difficult for a woman to have an abortion if she is over 25. Make her show her past year tax return, and require a 10% of total years income to conduct the proceedure. This would eliminate the whole process being something the rich and powerfull could do, and the poor could not. Thereby not forcing poor people into a situation they were trying to avoid in the first place.

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