The Racist history of the Republican Party

[Mr Puggsly]

HappySqurriel said:

Mr Puggsly said:

Kasz216 said:

There is.

There are tons of people looking to adopt babys who can't due to low supply.

Seems counterintutive since there are tons of kids who go unadopted, but the truth is...

people want babies.  Any Baby put up for adoption now adays is readily snapped up... and babies are in such short supply that we litteraly import them... and many more would be imported if not for strict laws in regards to it.

It's just... once a kid hits 2 or so... he's considered "Damaged goods".   Already has the smell of someone else on it... or something I don't know, i don't want kids so I really don't get the mindset.

Right, people want babies. But there are tons of children waiting to be adopted.

The situation would be even worse without abortions.

I don't think there is any evidence to demonstrate that, or any reason why that would be true ...

While the general point of what Kasz said is true I believe the age he said that children become "damaged goods" is still very young; from my understanding interest in adopting children starts to decline at about 2 years old, but they do not really hit an age where it difficult/impossible to get adopted until they hit school age. It may not be nice to say but a lot of the fears about adopting older children are not unfounded.

A few years back I read an article discussing a paper from  Jonathan Klick (University of Pennsylvania Law School) and Thomas Stratmann (George Mason University) that indicated that toughly laws relating to abortion results in less high-risk sexual behaviour resulting in lower pregnancy rates and lower incidents of STDs. The laws that were the base of the study involved requiring children to get the consent of their parents before having an abortion so it wasn't an outright ban, and yet there were significant changes in people's behaviours.

I could be wrong, but I suspect that if abortions were illegal most girls would be extremely careful about taking their birth-control pills and few men would be having pre-marital sex without a condom; essentially, people would behave as is suggested in many sexual education programs to prevent preganancy and STDs.

Perhaps SOME people would be more careful if abortions were illegal. Although I don't think many people consider abortions until they get pregnant. It should be considered women would definitely find more dangerous methods to get rid of the fetus as well if abortion was illegal.

Its a double edge blade. There would be terrible consequences if you get rid of abortion.