When I was in my teens and 20's, I believed in abortion.

As I've gotten older, I've seen the wisdom, and the greater humanity, of eliminating abortion.
Or at least making abortion so difficult as to be a far more thought out option when used, that guarantees a woman (or girl) has explored all other options.

At least in the United States, those who get abortions are usually those who can best afford to have a child and care for it.

The poor utilize abortion, even publicly funded abortion, far less than middle class women.
Which dispels the myth that it gets rid of the children caught in a cycle of poverty that no one wants.

And as far as unwanted children growing up in dire circumstances who would be better off not being born, it is often those dire circumstances that drive children to achieve the most.
Andrew Carnegie, despite growing up in poverty, with a drunken virtually absent father, became one of the wealthiest men of the nineteenth/early-twentieth century.
Artist Norman Rockwell also had a poor family life, that drove him to spend the rest of his life capturing the better part of American people and family life in his paintings.

My mother is teacher, and the principal at her school is a driven and very educated man, who grew up in an orphanage. I'm sure he's glad his anonymous mother didn't have an abortion.

And there are many who would like to adopt, and do adopt children from nations and races across the world, because there are not children to adopt in the U.S.
A friend of mine (Ken) adopted a child from China just last year.

I think carrying a baby to term is a small price to pay for the stupidity of getting pregnant.
After that, she can put it up for adoption.
And there are only about 3 or 4 months of the pregnancy where it is obvious to others the woman is pregnant.
A relatively small inconvenience for the woman.

I'd estimate that about 5 to 10 percent of the people I grew up with were adopted by their parents. It's far from unheard of.

I'm not fanatical about banning abortion, and I do think there are circumstances where abortion should be allowed (rape, incest, or severe health problems of the mother).
But I generally have come to understand it to be a selfish and uncivilized option that is utilized far too often in our culture.

I forget the exact quote by Mother Theresa, in a TIME magazine interview, but she said something like:
What more can you say about how evil a society has become, than when it chooses to murder its own children?
Or words to that effect.