[patrickserrano]

That's still a huge burden to put on a woman. My wife is 6 months pregnant and even being white and fairly well off financially it's been a struggle for her. She's been extremely sick and getting adequate care even in NYC has been astonishingly difficult despite using one of the most recommended practices I've ever encountered. She's in pain all of the time, struggles to get around, and would have had to take unpaid leave if she wasn't able to WFH with a boss that's understanding and flexible. Not every pregnancy is as hard as my wife's, but not all of them are as easy as your friend's girlfriend's either.

There's also a cost to being pregnant outside of just the medical costs. Assuming you have insurance that covers the doctors, you still need new clothes, new shoes, eating more, medications, tools to help support your pregnancy like a belt to take the weight off your back, etc because of the changes to your body. Those things aren't accessible to everyone.

Adoption is amazing for those that it works for, and I'm glad it's an option, but it's not a replacement for abortion by a long shot. (And all of this is ignoring the trauma both the mother and the child deal with later in life)