fmc83 said:
I didn't want to, but as you answer and I respect everyones opinion, let's really go deep in this and just in the specific case of the USA (some points would still be valid outside of the US though). Just too many question pop up in my brain, which would be great if you could answer them!
- according to several institutes the abortion rate is falling in the USA. I assume here because people think more about it and that's good.
I bet it's still over a million a year in the US
- so if you would introduce a "business model" of getting money off selling children, wouldn't this raise the birth rate?
Yes, but the US birth rate is not high and we don't have an over population problem, especialy if immigartion was restricted.
- Do you know any market which wasn't saturised at some point? So let's assume the market starts being in this state, while selling children became a "business model". That surely leads too more abortions, which you can ever expect, and that just in a couple of months.
Well, paid adoptions can be an alternative to abortion. As demand falls, so will supply to match it. Woman that make a business out of it would have to have particuarly desirable genes. I would think just unwanted pregnancies could fulfill demand.
- Even if a market would work, which babies would be the ones big amounts of money would be paid for? Definitely not the ones whose parents come from ethnical groups whose background lies in 3rd world countries (no racist thinking behind this from me, but it would be just cheaper to "import" a baby from africa i.e. anyhow)
It would be based on demand. There is a severe shortage of white babies available for adoption, so I would expect demand for them to be higher. Though when Hollywood stars have to go to third world countries to adopt, you know there must be high local demand.
- so it leaves the poorest, I hereby assume, the latest immigrants and the lowest class which unwanted babies, which they can choose to sell for a couple of hundred bucks.
I think it costs $30K-$50K and months/years of paperwork to adopt an unwanted third world baby. But I think you'll find it's not recent immigrants having abortions.
- And still how would society react, if you would sell your baby? And how if you'd sell it for a couple of hundred bucks or let it be 1 grand?
Society accepts abortion. I think giving a couple that wants a baby is a better alternative.
- Selling a child, doesn't this sound wrong anyhow to you?
Not compared to abortion. Is selling sperm or eggs wrong? Is adoption wrong?
- What about the children themselves? What to tell them, when they've grown up? Hey darling, we bought you for 10k $ as a baby? How would you react to this?
Well, you could always tell them how lucky they are to be alive, literarily. Is there that much stigma to adoption still? Is it different then a woman going to a sperm bank? Better gene quality sperm costs more money.
- Isn't it human nature to find out where you've come from?
Yes, but is this any worse then adoption, or being the product of artifical insemination? Eggs and sperm can be bought for that.
And all these points are just relevant to my statement, that you seem to have no idea about economical structures, nor human rights, nor common sense.
But let's go back: That's not even all problems I can think of, but I reckon it's enough for now. So what do you think of them?
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