| Dodece said: @mrstickball Actually my point isn't which is better a single or couple. They are light years ahead of a uncaring home, or the foster care system. Both of which are text book recipes for psychological problems. Neither of which is palatable. You either have a parent that is disinterested at best, and at worst cruel. On the other hand you can get the exact same thing in the foster system. With the same problems antagonized by the prospect of constant moving. The point being that unwanted pregnancies that result in abortions are probably precluding that possibility more often then not. I tend to believe that more often then not it is probably a sound decision. I want drug addicts to have abortions, because they are emotional wrecks, and their children suffer profound birth defects. I have a degree of trust in a women having an abortion in that they are making a sound decision, because lets face it this is doing something that goes against just about every instinct they have raging. |
Except that the number of children in foster per 1000 children steadily increased through the 1980s and 1990s, and (today) remains higher than in was in the 1960s and 1970s, which (by your logic) would imply a higher rate of violent crime today than was happening in the 1960s and 1970s. There is no evidence to show that abortions are more often performed on drug users, or people who are somehow going to make less caring parents, and the assumption that this is the case is much more based on a person's ideology than it is on fact.
Basically, any statistics you look at demonstrate that more "unwanted" children are living in environments that dramatically increase their likelihood of committing (often violent) crimes; and yet the rate of violent crime continues to drop. With this in mind anyone who is being reasonable would have to concede that any impact abortion had was probably very minor especially when you compare it to the impact of other factors like 3-strikes laws, the decline in quantity and regularity of alcohol use, the decline of domestic violence (and the elimination of corporal punishment in school), and the introduction of more productive outlets for violent outbursts.
