? Even my buddy who defied all odds as an orphan and went on to a successfull career in LE and is about to retire from the AF, leans left. He is the one out of 20 who didn't become a drug addict/criminal/welfare leech that people would use to justify a ban on abortions.
Now calculate the cost/benefit to society and even with that one out of 20 being a superstar.... Society deals with a much greater burden and cost from the other 19..
So have you told your buddy that while you like him, you truly think he doesn't have a right to exist because he comes from "bad stock" and he should have never been allowed to live because by your "statistics" somehow "Society" would be better off if him and everyone like him were never allowed to exist because their parents weren't the right wealth/status/caste/race?? Because that is EXACTLY what you are saying in so many words.
Let me know how that conversation goes with him. You might find he comes to the conclusion the world would have been better off if you would have been aborted instead of him.
Take that further, what if the mothers of these supposed going to be a burden to society children do not want to abort their babies because some great "thinkers" like you decide their babies would be a burden to society? Are you going to forcibly kill their babies or forcibly make them unable to have children. Do they not deserve their own choice as well? What if they want to have the child & hope that eventually even though they have bad lives one of their children will get out of the slum and lead a great life?
Or is that not an option to them in your great ideas where the elite pick what happens to the rest of humanity?
(Hint, that has been done often by both groups that were recognized as horrible and well meaning SJW type Progressives. Canada is just now having to deal with coming to terms with their own sins in that matter against native people).
Humans are pack animals. We are tribal and at the end of the day you can have personal liberty while still doing what's best for society as a whole. I think most of us would argue most personnel liberties consistent with our founding, would in fact benefit society. The whole what doesn't pick my pocket or break my legg quote comes to mind. Guns make society safer as does allowing liberal use of self defense against criminals. What your proposing both picks my pocket and breaks my legg. A fetus's rights should always come second to the personnel freedom of the adult who carries it. It's the only logical approach. Don't like it? Well it's not your place to say. You have zero right to dictate what someone else does with their body and their personal freedom Trump's your feels.
The problem with your statement is that you mistake the whole idea of personal freedom.
Parents don't "Own" children, rather parents are the Guardians & Protectors of their children and the ones with the primary duty to care for them and protect them as part of bringing them into this world, and seeing they mature till the point where they can reasonably & knowledgeably be fully responsible for their own actions and their own support. Good societies respect that and defer to the rights of the Parents to raise their children as best they wish, unless the parent's actions specifically are causing irreparable harm, suffering or death to the children in their care, in which case the children are removed and a new guardian and protector appointed. (Because there are a lot of sick people out there these days that really can't be the guardian and protector of a child).
In an actual free society, your rights end at the point where you actually start infringing on someone else's right. (Including any attempts to make you pay for the lifestyle of others against your choice).
The same people that advocate killing unborn children are the ones that are also suggesting that they should pick your pocket to pay for children who parents won't support. The rest of us believe that we do not "owe" support on anyone else, that is there matter, we of course are free if we individually or in groups wish to voluntarily provide "charity" to help those less fortunate for our own moral reasons, but firmly stand against some "government" taking our money at gun point to give to others. (The difference between a beggar and a mugger).
It's a matter of when a human is a human and much like the old discussion about slavery and race, (where there was much discussion that the Africans weren't "real" people genetically or mentally and many other such fallacies) in the end there is only one logically correct & moral answer. Just as all humans are humans and deserve freedom and liberty regardless of race, colour or creed.
So too each human has their own human rights and human self worth even if they are unborn. We don't let parents kill their children, rape their children, abuse or dismember their children after they are born. So why for example would a child have all those rights and protections if 30 minutes before they are born someone could go chop them up and kill them just because they wish. Can you say a child just born has all these rights but you could perform a partial birth abortion and kill that same child when they are half way out of the mother's body?
There is a bit of a difference in cases where if the pregnancy was to continue both mother and child would die. That is one of those cases where it's down to a personal decision and sometimes life is unfair and you have to save someone rather than letting all die.
It's not like birth control is expensive, difficult or unknown. Both temporary, instant and permanent options are readily available, including options needing nothing but don't put 1 and 0 together. So if you don't want to have children, don't create them in the first place.