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I think you are misunderstanding. There is nothing wrong with working. However that person being restricted in their possibilities due to their life circumstances and being forced, because of those circumstances, to life an unhappy life is worse than death.
This goes back to environment. If a person was otherwise aborted, but instead was forced to live in a hostile environment where the mother either does not want the child or cannot care for the child to the point where that child's options are limited than we are harming that child.
Forced to live, but still living. Better than death. Why do so many poor people not kill themselves? You think they ain't got the means? No, it's because that even if their life sucks and is hard; it's still life. It's better than the alternative.
My only point is if abortion was illegal than we now have a responsibility to nurture those children and give them a real chance at happiness. And yes, that falls on the great society if the mother is unfit for whatever reason.
This just seems to be the standard sort of rallying against biology thing. If I had no hand in a woman being pregnant, I hold no responsibility to the child. The only "responsibility" society has is to ensure the rights and liberties of the individual; everything else is left to the individual. Sure, we can work to restore free market capitalism, to restore economic mobility, to allow fair and open participation in the system. But that's about it.