Should abortion be banned?

[HappySqurriel]

Boneitis said:

HappySqurriel said:

Boneitis said:

Yeah, lets ban it. Lets force women to go to Mexico or throw them self off the stairs if they want abortions. I'm also afraid orphanages aren't full enough, we need more criminals.

The average wait to adopt a baby is over 4 years because there are so many more people who want to adopt than there are babies to adopt, so orphanages don't really get impacted from abortions ...

Maybe for a white baby. Either way, we have abortions so we don't know the real impact banning it would have.

What you don't seem to understand is that we live in a society where the number of people who are ready, willing and able to adopt young children is an order of magnitude greater than the number of young children available; and there is such a crisis of a lack of children to adopt that people are doing what was once thought to be unthinkable and going to third world countries to adopt children which will bear no resemblance to them (and everyone will know they’re adopted).

Now I don't want to imply that there aren't children who are difficult to find adoptive parents for, because there are quite a few of them out their; but these tend to be older children (primarily teenagers) or children with serious physical, emotional or mental problems.

I'm (personally) not saying that abortions should be banned, but the argument that not having abortion available would have an impact on orphans in western countries is simply false.