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Quit trying to imagine that you people have the terrible aftermath of an abortion ban all figured out. You don't. The actual solution to reduce abortion would take time, money, understanding and compassion, not the stroke of some politicians pen. Imagine you did get abortion criminalized, you want to jail women for having one? Make even miscarriages grounds for criminal investigation? How far you want this to go?I have no problems with that but no one can say that all orphans get adopted or that we still will not end up with many thousands of wards of the state none of you want to spend money on. Whether to carry a baby to term or not is already an impossible decision for a single woman, taking that choice away from them and turning it into no choice is not an act of kindness.
Older orphaned kids do exist and are not so easily adopted, yes. But why should we do away with hundreds of thousands of babies each year that would gladly be adopted by well off couples because of those older kids? Is that even a fair argument?
And I would be willing to be the great majority of abortions occur not because of the months of pregnancy because the mother or father does not want anything to do with a child after it's born. Big difference.
Ah abstinence, the birth control method that only really works for dead people. It's like saying that not driving a car is the only way to prevent traffic accidents.
Using abortion as a backup measure for birth control is immoral even unconscionable, imo.