Abortion

I choose the 2nd topic or statement.

2.) Teenagers who become mothers have grim prospects for the future. They are much more likely to leave of school; receive inadequate prenatal care; rely on public assistance to raise a child; develop health problems; or end up divorced.

From a Christian perspective, teenagers should not have sexual intercouse unless they are married.  Teenagers want to get pregnant and do get pregnant which is there choice, however they suffer from consequences such as balancing or giving up school, parent accountablility, and so on.  First of all, a teenager and can wait to have child when they are more mature and out of high school.  That way they are some what prepared, have a better chance of getting into college in the futre, and can get a job.  I guess, my question is, why do teenagers want to have a child?  Do they think that is cool, or grown up thing?  It's takes a lot of responsibilty and planning.  Not to sound rude, but most teenage mothers ruin their chance of college because they drop out of high school (some mothers might be able to balance school and their kid and be successful).  Because some teenage mothers try to balance out everything, they get stressed and unhealthy habits begin to form.  Or during the pregnancy they drink, do drugs, or other harmful actions that hurt them and the baby.  Not only that they are not being "fair" to the rest of the community.  Also most teenagers that get married in their earlie teens, are most likely going to get a divorece.  I have no statistics about that, but that's what I heard.

Some teenagers get raped and do not know what to do.  From a Christian perspective, they should carry the baby and give her/him up for adoption.  Some women feel shame if they have an abortion because they killed and innocent huma being.  Some teenagers have an abortion because they do not know that the living organism that is growing is  a human being. 

Overall, in a Christian perspective, teenagers should wait to get married.  They should think about thier decsions and why they want to do what they want to do.  They need to think about the pros and cons and the struggels and the posistives.