Reply #27: I really hate to approach these things from an economic standpoint

[Sparkly]

because it's all a matter of morality, and there's no price we can put on a leg, for example.

And first I'll say again that the goal should be universal health care AND access to abortion within that. Biden seems to be for the former but not the latter.

In terms of dollars and cents, the cost of a child -- especially from an unwanted pregnancy -- can be significant. In some circumstances, it involves social services to the mother as well as the child. Again, I hate to think of this in financial terms, but to the argument about the cost of abortions (especially from conservatives who love "unborn children" but would tell the children of "welfare queens" to get lost), those factors should be considered. And so should the low cost of helping to prevent unwanted pregnancies!

(Same goes for a lot of other things they don't want to spend tax dollars on, like urban renewal, job training, housing, school services, drug rehab, economic incentives, etc. -- instead, they'll spend far more on prisons and court proceedings. Edited to make clear: I'm not relating unwanted pregnancies directly to crime, but drawing another analogy.)