Warning: discussions of childhood sexual trauma, including rape and sex trafficking, as well as discussing the Epstein files.
By the way, abortion is a children's rights issue as well.
Obviously, children have sex and also can be victims of sexual assault and therefore they can become pregnant, which means they deserve the right to terminate for whatever reason, including the fact that being so young and giving birth can permanently disabled or kill you, especially if you're younger than a teenager. And make no mistake, that absolutely happens. Due to precocious puberty (a case of puberty occurring at an unusually early age), the youngest person to ever give birth was Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado in 1939, who was only four years old when she got pregnant.
But I'm not just referring to that fact when I'm saying that abortion is a children's rights issue. I'm talking about what happens when children are born to parents who didn't want to be or weren't prepared to be parents.
Children are life-changing for parents. An entire new human being is completely vulnerable and irresponsible, and it's your job to feed them, clothe them, bathe them, send them to school, teach them, raise them, make sure they don't get themselves killed--- because our society (I'm mostly speaking about America because that's where I live, but this could be applicable for other countries) is designed for productivity, the nuclear family unit and individualism, becoming a parent means centering your life around a child with little to no help, financial struggle, little to no time for yourself, losing friends, etc. It's not that hard to believe that a parent would then grow to resent their child, and then they're more likely to abuse them. Even if they don't resent the child, having a kid without the proper resources, support, and preparations ready can lead to unintentional neglect and/or abuse anyway.
"You can always just send them to be adopted or fostered!"
True, you could just give your child away to a system that says they'll find someone more fit to be a parent, sure. However, that in itself can be traumatic, even for babies. During the final trimester, it's believed that babies begin to have smell and therefore can recognize their mothers by scent and once born they find comfort and safety in that, considering it was the first and only smell they knew for weeks (and before someone says "if that's so important and you can acknowledge that a baby can process things in the womb, why are you pro-choice??" the answer is that in the final trimester, an abortion happening that late is most definitely going to be due to a medical emergency where the baby and/or the mom are guaranteed to die or have serious most likely permanent medical consequences. I think it's better for an adult who's already been alive for years to keep living happily than it is for that person to die as well as their baby growing up without a parent, if that baby survives at all). For that to be taken away from them results in a sense of insecurity and can traumatize them.
This goes past the biological desire for a connection with your birthgiver as well. Because guess what? The foster system is not that great. The Survey of Youth Transitioning from Foster Care questioned 335 youths in child welfare who are more likely to be victims of human trafficking and found that around 40% of them had been trafficked before the age of 18. Sure, it is a small sample size, and sure, they were looking for children who were more likely to be trafficked for the data, but guess what? 34% of members reported that their experience being trafficked began after they were forced to leave their home. Out of the 40% who were trafficked, a majority of them experienced it for the first time after being forced to leave their home. There is therefore a direct correlation shown in this study between being made to leave your home and being trafficked for sex as a CHILD.
It's well known that traffickers often go to the most vulnerable of children for what they do, with it being estimated that 60% of children who are victims of trafficking are from the foster care system. This also shouldn't be surprising when you know that children in foster care or other child welfare systems go missing all the time. In the state of Georgia alone, nearly 1,800 children in the system went missing from the years 2018-2022. Georgia isn't even that big of a state nor does it have major cities like New York or California! Imagine how much worse it much be there. These also don't go reported well, with around 51,000 of 74,535 children missing for over two days from the periods of July 1, 2018 to December 31, 2020 not being reported properly, and over half of them (around 34,000) not being reported at all. I've also found some resources stating that 60% of rescued trafficking victims come from the foster care system and that 40% of children who go missing in state care go missing multiple times with an average of four times, but I couldn't find the exact place that information came from (and don't have the time to keep on digging. This stuff is important to me but I also have a lot of other responsibilities and highly encourage everyone to take their time learning new things as well and sharing it with others!)
In other words, "just send the kid to be adopted/fostered" is NOT a good alternative to aborting a child!! I'm not a victim of child sexual abuse so maybe I'm not in my right to say this, but personally I think it's better to have never been alive and never gotten a chance to feel anything including suffering than it is to be born into an unloving home, receive trauma and the first seeds of abandonment issues by being separated to my mother, and then facing a large chance of being raped for money that I may not even see for years of my life. Not saying that someone experiencing that doesn't deserve to live--- not at all--- but I'd say it's very reasonable to not bring a child into that knowing that it's such a high possibility.
Abortion is a children's rights issue. Yes, we need to fix these systems (by creating more community-based care and prioritizing interdependence for everyone including children, as well as legalizing children's rights and allowing them to have more agency as well as resources to escape abuse and find support and places to recover afterwards without legal repercussions and for abusers to have actual consequences for their actions) but that's not coming any time soon unfortunately, so a person who's pregnant has all the right to abort their child instead of bringing them into a system that does not care for them.
Also, do not let it be lost on you that the same politicians that are pro-life and claim that abortion is murder are the same ones who are in files where they traffic children, many of them certainly being foster care children, and did absolutely vile shit like auctioning them based off of sticking a finger in their vaginas and determining how tight they are, raping them and forcing them to touch grown men's genitals, forcefully impregnating them and eating their offspring... uhm. Of course they want unwanted children to be born and sent to the state. They got to use them as sex dolls and evening meals. They are sexual AND cannibalistic child predators, do NOT let them dictate what is safe and good and healthy for children for fuck's sake.
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