There are several cases of depression, drug and alcohol abuse, self-mutilation, psychosis, and finally suicide, among people who know they were unwanted babies. Several parents even say that openly to their children, causing disproportional trauma and an eternal feeling of not belonging and poor self-esteem." Unwanted pregnancies can have lots of negative outcomes, more often involving the future of the child. The right to choose to have a child or not is slowly slipping away from the hands of women.
In the debate over abortion, there are two opposing stand points, which are pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice is a stand point that advocates abortion and is pushing for abortion to become legal in all states. Pro-choice argues that when abortion is illegal women cannot experience full freedom. Abortion provides an option to women whose life of their own and their offspring is not fully guaranteed to work out, to instead not have an unwanted child and save the mother from then having to give that child up, saving the child from an unknown future. As well, it saves the mother from and the child if it comes from an unwanted pregnancy from having to change abruptly her life to respond to the child, which in most cases forces young teens of school and thus not letting them progress in life individually and for the child. The child then also suffers from not having the full parental support and attention since the parent is either unfit or unable to provide this care. Pro-choice not only focuses on the choice women deserve as birth-givers to choose whether they are capable of performing the required task and from taking the responsibility of bringing new life into the world, but they also advocate for women's reproductive rights at a large overview. In the concerns regarding politics and abortion, abortion is not the only issue women face. Besides the threat of their right to choose abortion or not, being fully annihilated, they also face the threat of having proper reproductive healthcare.