I think, too, mothers often force their teenage daughters to have abortions because they know they have failed as a parent by not advocating abstinence and achieving it. Thus, by eliminating the pregnancy, society has alleviated their feelings of guilt about the whole situation. Also, ask your friend if he really thinks murdering a child to avoid responsibility is going to teach teenage girls a lesson MORE than having to own up to the responsibility of their actions by carrying it to term. I guarantee going through labor, whether you keep the kid or not, will teach you more than an abortion. Furthermore, the teenage girls’ friends will all have to see what she goes through and hear about it and it will make them think twice perhaps about sex outside of marriage. Whether he knows it or not, your friend is endorsing the concept of consequence free sex whereby you pleasure yourself with another person and have no responsibility to them and no “consequences”. This is hollow and ultimately renders those who practice this philosophy incapable of getting anything other than physical pleasure out of the experience. The person they have sex with is as meaningless as the act. I maintain the only truly consequence free sex is within a loving marriage when you know the person will be there for you and both of you lovingly accept any children that may result. If you don’t see a child as a consequence and don’t have the fear of STD’s or being used by someone you love, there truly are no consequences.