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Originally posted by MissWetPanties
Okay, so I couldn't stay away from this thread. 
EXCUSE ME, but I was 19 when I had my son. He's now 7 years old and I'm CERTAIN that he is very glad I didn't abort him. He's also a very kind and caring individual.
I have a friend who had a baby at 14. She raised her daughter (who is now 13) VERY well, and her daughter is a straight-A student, well adjusted, happy and thriving wonderfully. She does not do drugs, smoke or drink. She is not in a gang (unless you want to count her youth group at church). She is planning to go to college and become a doctor. And someday you may thank god she was born because if she becomes a doctor she might end up saving your life. 
You cannot sit there and say a woman is not capable of being a good mother before she's 21.
My friend was a good mother at 14.
My grandmother was a good mother at 16.
My mother was a good mother at 20.
However I know children who grew up with mothers who gave birth in their thirties who had no business EVER being parents. I went to school with a girl who's mother had her in her late 20s and she left my 13 year old friend home alone until 3 AM every night of the week so she could go out drinking and doing drugs. Now THAT shit is irresponsible. I also know someone who is in her 30s who has three kids who used to leave her 13, 5 and 2 year old children home alone ALL WEEKEND while she went out partying. Is that being a good mother?
Being of legal age does not make one a good mother.
And apparently the ability to have sex does not make one intelligent.
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Are you saying only responsible teens get pregnant?
I'd say, if a teen gets pregnant, she's very likely to be an irresponsible person, and not to mention most likely not ready to take care of the baby. She's first going to ruin her own life and then the baby's.
The examples you show me can't change the facts.
It's like saying, 'my friend drives drunk all the time but has never caused any accidents, and there are sober people who drive worse than him'.
I am pro-choice, but not really pro-abortion.
I'm against teen pregnancy, as much as you might be against abortion.