[Mrs. Don-o]

Or lawful to barbecue babies and sell juicy hunks of them from vending carts on the streets.

[Mrs. Don-o]

I guess I run he same risk as Samuel Johnson with his “Modest Proposal”.

[Kartographer]

No it not lawful not because of the fact they are eating babies, it is the barbecuing that makes it illegal it adds to Global Warming don’t you know.

[itsahoot]

Or lawful to barbecue babies and sell juicy hunks of them from vending carts on the streets.

Do you really know what is in that pushcart tamale vendor's products? Hmnnn?

[Scoutmaster]

I doubt Posner would go there. However, he views adoption agencies, whether private or public, as inefficient social welfare agents rather than agents to efficiently process adoptions. He blames adoption agencies for the shortage of babies to adopt and makes good arguments.

Among other things, he argues that if it were lawful to purchase babies, fewer babies would be raised in poverty by single mothers.

It's been years since I read the article, but if I remember correctly, he did a good job of explaining why the availability of babies to purchase would result in a price that did not include an incentive for women to give birth simply to sell their babies.

He's also argued in favor of offering organs for sale on the grounds that more people would become organ donors. Well, it's Posner. The explanation was economic and much more complicated than that.