General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: This message was self-deleted by its author [View all]justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)I take it, you'd like to add to that number? Bring it up to half a million. That's what would happen if none of those 332k abortion by PP didn't happen. And if we go with the overall #s of abortions performed in the US each year, we'd have close to 1.5mil kids in foster care. Because, guess what, women and girls are going to get pregnant--some are going to act irresponsibly (and the men involved are responsible for that too), some are going to be raped, some are going to have health issues, and some are going to be victims of faulty birth control. So, we'll shave 500k off that number just for shits and giggles (I'm probably being overly generous with my made up number) -- that still leaves us, amazingly, close to 1mil kids who would be left in the foster care system or available for sale (because adoption, especially for healthy white infants, is a booming industry).
What do we do with all those kids? Put them to work as Gingrich suggests? Turn them out on the street? Force people to take them in? Could you imagine 1mil kids, each year, growing up knowing no one wants them? Yes, please, let's save their lives so we can psychologically damage them instead. What a wonderful society that would create.
What pisses me off about the argument that 1 abortion is too many is that no one really seems to give a shit about what happens to that child after they are born. If their life is so fucking precious, why do so many kids languish in foster care? If their lives are so precious, why are so many kids abused or abandoned after they leave that womb? If their lives are so precious, why are children starving in the US right now?
Finally, why are we even having this discussion in the first place? Abortion is legal in the US and, frankly Zebedeo, it's none of your business unless YOU are going to have one.