Read this and I agree:
Question for you though: Were abortion banned today, what would happen to all the unwanted children? A statistic in 1996 put the yearly number of abortions at around 1.4 million (insanely high number!). A study from 1994-2...000 showed that about 58% of women obtaining abortions lived below or just above the poverty line (about $10,000 a year for a single mother, $20,000 for a family of four). The cost of raising a child from 0-18 these days is about $225,000 (
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-...2010-may-cost-226-920-to-raise-usda-says.html). These children would quite literally be living in abject poverty, likely starving based on our current state even without the extra 1.4 million children a year
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/US/hunger-children-america-slow-steady-starvation/story?id=14328390.
True, some of those impoverished do recieve government aid to help feed their children but the Republican-led House of Representatives is currently trying to slash the welfare budget and draw funds away from the U.S. foster care system as well as orphanages.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501485.html
One option is surely to adopt these children out of pitiful living conditions, abuse, and starvation but let's take a look at how many families are waiting to adopt. I'm having trouble finding an accurate link on that statistic, but another pro-life friend of mine put the number somewhere around 40,000 families. This is odd because recent studies have shown that we have about 120,000 children waiting to be adopted in America. The most common problem with these children, as viewed by the prospecive adoptive parents, is that they are too old or they are minorities.
We're left with the math that 58% of 1.4 million kids, or just over 812,000 children a year would need either A) Massive government assistance for the parents in a time when the number of people on government assistance is 4 times the number of unemployed (they can't just "get jobs" because there aren't nearly enough) or B) A massive tax increase to expand out foster care and orphanage system by about 677% in the first year alone (add 800,000 unwanted children a year, the budget balloons).
The C) option that I'd rather not think about is the most likely during times of economic hardship and record American debt. When politicians are railing against "entitlements" and benefits for the poorest of the poor. Leaving those extra 800,000 children (a year) to live short lives, starve, and die at the feet of an apathetic America that is pro-life up until the point that the child is born.
I'd truly like to see the percieved need for abortion to go away, I just can't see a scenario in which that would ever happen. I'm genuinely interested in this issue and would like to hear what you think about this when considering the unwanted and impoverished children and not the religious angle.
Summary: The math doesn't work out. Basically banning abortion means putting almost a million unwanted children on the street or into government hands a year and we can't afford it. The government in this scenario is "pro-life" until birth. After that, these kids are ****ed.
BWAUHAHAHA! 
