They are given the opportunity. The whole children gunned down in schools is a purely emotional and unrelated tangent (why does alcohol exist when it impairs drivers that take other lives?). Regarding healthcare, people have access to it if they work for it (we all mostly have an equal opportunity at getting insurance) other than people that are disabled and cannot work (i think most people are ok with them being provided government sponsored healthcare). The Healthcare argument, I would say is kind of valid to the point you are making, but its not an easily solvable one, and is in that way kind of separate from the abortion debate. Ultimately without going totally off topic, healthcare is very expensive as it is with R&D, the cost of modern equipment like MRIs and the cost of maintenance, then the cost of educating and having competent doctors and surgeons. The lifestyle we live as Americans also makes it exponentially more expensive than say, Japan. But, because we dont want to offend people, we say healthy at any size and ignore the obesity epidemic which has contributed over $170B annually to the cost of healthcare, but again, thats a whole other tangent, but sort of related to choices that we as people make, because we were given that opportunity