Abortion Rebuttal: There is no Excuse for an Abortion

There are many things in this world are expensive. A lot of people will agree that raising children is one. Children require food, shelter, medical insurance, and clothes. This is still no excuse for abortion. There is several government and non-government funded agencies and funding available to help with families who may be struggling to provide for their families. There are several options such as welfare, snap benefits program, food banks, thrift stores, and many others that help lighten the stressful financial load of raising children. There are programs like Medicaid, which provides health coverage for individuals making below a certain income, which differs from state to state. There is also a CHIP program (Children’s Health Care and Insurance) that provides coverage to nearly 8 million children in families with incomes too high to qualify for Medicaid, but cannot afford coverage, (Medicaid.gov.) Between Medicaid and the CHIP program coverage is provided to more than 45 million children in the United States. (Medicaid.gov). All children involved in the Medicaid and CHIP program are entitled to comprehensive medical plans. (Medicad.gov children) Medical care is a big expense for some families. Medicaid and CHIP cover a lot of children but for some that do not qualify for either there is also Obamacare, which is suppose to be affordable healthcare for Americans. There are also local clinics that will see patients for little or nothing if individuals do not have insurance. There are also programs that assist with food. Snap is a program whose purpose is to end hunger and improve nutrition by providing monthly benefits to eligible low income households to help them buy the food they need for good health, (benefits,gov SNAP) Th...

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... they are. I still stand by the fact that a life is a life no matter what their physical limitations are. There are children of all ages who live with these means but does that make them any less of a human? Will killing the disabled or cure their condition? Absolutely not. C. Everett Koop, a pediatric surgeon says, “some of the most unhappy children have all of their physical and mental faculties, while some of the happiest youngsters have borne burdens which most of us would find very difficult to endure”

Works Cited

http://www.benefits.gov/benefits/benefit-details/1578

http://medicaid.gov/CHIP/CHIP-Program-Information.html

http://medicaid.gov/Medicaid-CHIP-Program-Information/Medicaid-and-CHIP-Program-Information.html

https://www.cfda.gov/index?s=program&mode=form&tab=core&id=2225059406dd5508834cde454b3e63b4

http://www.feedingal.org/

teenpregnancies.org