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Originally Posted by raytri
I seriously doubt a significant portion of people think that way. I know I didn't, when I was young. The availability of abortion wasn't really a factor in my decisions about whom to sleep with, and when.
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I didn't either, but I know some do. My sister's best friend and my cousin are two of them. Anecdotal, but I still believe abortions provide a backstop for other birth control methods which is exactly why the rates have increased since Roe vs Wade.
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You've managed to turn this around. My point was that banning abortion would result in a huge increase in live births, swamping the number of available adoptive families.
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My mistake.
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I'll agree that banning abortion would result in fewer unplanned pregnancies. My point is that the numbers are so out of whack -- abortions outpace adoption by an order of magnitude -- that you'd have to believe that banning abortion would *drastically* reduce the number of unplanned pregnancies in order for the numbers to balance.
I just don't believe that banning abortion will reduce unplanned pregnancies from 1.2 million a year to 120,000 a year.
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I think it would based on history, in 1973 we didn't have huge amounts of kids in foster care versus today. Maybe it was higher, but not to epidemic proportions that using your figures might indicate.