I'm very strongly pro-life (only exception risk of life of the mother), and I don't have a problem with it. Abortion is (in my morality perspective) wrong because it kills a human being. If a human being is not being killed, I don't see a problem with this route assuming it leads to adoption.
Now that we're going along this route - I don't see why abortion belongs in a religion thread. Abortion has nothing to do with religion. I'm agnostic and pro-life. My argument is very simple: human life should be protected. Abortion ends a human life (no discussion of "viability" needed here - a fetus has distinctly human DNA human from conception). Therefore, abortion should not be permitted.
I find it shocking how the lives of animals are somehow more worthy of protection than those of living humans beings.
You have to consider that most of the life that would have been created would have been in bad living conditions growing up (Thus the reason for the parent(s) to get an abortion in the first place).
This could result in them growing up to be involved in crime, in poverty, uneducated, etc. As a whole this could be worse off for our species and world.
I agree that human life should be valued, but as a civilization we want all of our people to grow up in the best situations they can. If a teenage girl gets pregnant, she is less likely to offer this best individual situation.
For most people, human life is very easy to create but it is also very hard to grow and raise. It seems illogical for me to believe every accidental pregnancy SHOULD happen (Which would mean no abortion is allowed). Our entire world would be filled with even more people on government aid, living in poverty, relying on crime, etc. I value the lives of good people, but not bad people. I also believe that the life isn't developed fully when most abortions happen. (Although, in a perfect world I would agree with you, but for the reasons most mother's get abortions in the first place, I have to be on the side of allowing it in our real world)
What makes you value life that is created at conception so greatly? Are you also against killing any other animal or organism? Do you also feel that using contraception is in a sense preventing life because it is wasting its ability to create it?