Originally Posted by Phate

Concerning the argument that there are plenty of parents waiting to adopt these children, this unfortunately isn't true. 130,000 kids are adopted every year (40-50,000 of these by family members), while aprox. 1,300,000 are aborted. Since 1973 approx. 40 million abortions have taken place yet of the approx. 10 million women (ages 14 - 44) who have even considered adopting children only 2 million have actually sought adoption. Currently their are about 500,000 women seeking adoption.

I agree that far less people should seek abortion and that much more should be done to educate youth on protective sex. However, it's not as simple as making it illegal and letting people just give the child up for adoption. Even if you doubled the adoption rate your looking at 10 million orphans in the first 10 years. If you allow say $2000 per child for food and shelter each year then that equates to 20 billion dollars/year out of the budget.

Regardless, the fact is that some people are selfish irresponcible bastards who would rather spend their time and money voting on americal idol contestants than raising kids. Either a)you force these selfish irresponcible poeple to keep their kids (not a great solution in my opinion considering who we're talkin about), b) or you spend billions on orphanages, or c) you figure out how to make people more responcible and less selfish to begin with before making it illegal.

Making abortion illegal and spending money on orphanages is only a short-term quick fix in my opinion. It does not address the larger issue. Abortions have actually started to decline in recent years because of people who are working towards solution C. Which is what I agree with. Spend money now educating people in advance rather than on orphanages after the fact and we will be better off in the long-term.