from a practical standpoint regarding abortion have any of you anti-abortion people considered the following:
for conversation's sake, let's say abortion is outlawed completely. Pro-lifers argue that there are more people wanting to adopt babies than are able to get them. Estimates range from 1 million to 2 million people want to adopt each year. There are about 150,000 actual adoptions each year so the number of people that want to adopt each year carries over to the following year, there wouldn't be one or two million people actually adopting each year if there were an unlimited number of babies available to adopt. There are over 600,000 abortions in the US each year.
You would have many babies being born to people who don't want them but are forced to take them to term. I can't take a guess as to the percentage of mothers (or birthing people if you are a modern Democrat) that would keep their babies vs. putting them up for adoption but it seems pretty obvious that there would be a flood of babies that would become wards of the states (due to the people wanting to adopt getting theirs and no longer being in the number of those trying to adopt). Think about the financial burden that all of these humans that the government will be raising. Are you good with paying more in taxes to raise these people?
For the mothers that are forced to take their babies to term and end up keeping them I would expect that some would be raised in a loving environment but I also suspect that many of these babies that would have otherwise been aborted and that were unwanted will be neglected or abused. For the most part neglected and abused people grow up to be a hindrance to society by becoming future abusers, drug addicts, criminals, etc. There are additional tax dollars that will be needed to take care of these people as well.
Ignoring the additional tax burden on the citizens, are you going to want to have to deal with the additional crime that comes along with everything else?
for conversation's sake, let's say abortion is outlawed completely. Pro-lifers argue that there are more people wanting to adopt babies than are able to get them. Estimates range from 1 million to 2 million people want to adopt each year. There are about 150,000 actual adoptions each year so the number of people that want to adopt each year carries over to the following year, there wouldn't be one or two million people actually adopting each year if there were an unlimited number of babies available to adopt. There are over 600,000 abortions in the US each year.
You would have many babies being born to people who don't want them but are forced to take them to term. I can't take a guess as to the percentage of mothers (or birthing people if you are a modern Democrat) that would keep their babies vs. putting them up for adoption but it seems pretty obvious that there would be a flood of babies that would become wards of the states (due to the people wanting to adopt getting theirs and no longer being in the number of those trying to adopt). Think about the financial burden that all of these humans that the government will be raising. Are you good with paying more in taxes to raise these people?
For the mothers that are forced to take their babies to term and end up keeping them I would expect that some would be raised in a loving environment but I also suspect that many of these babies that would have otherwise been aborted and that were unwanted will be neglected or abused. For the most part neglected and abused people grow up to be a hindrance to society by becoming future abusers, drug addicts, criminals, etc. There are additional tax dollars that will be needed to take care of these people as well.
Ignoring the additional tax burden on the citizens, are you going to want to have to deal with the additional crime that comes along with everything else?
