[GovernmentShrinker]

The simple fact is that the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies that don’t end in abortion will result in a huge tab to the taxpayer for welfare, food stamps, public schooling (for the child of a non-taxpayer), Medicaid, and on and on. Anti-abortion activists try to make it sound like a big financial injustice is being done to them when tax dollars pay $250 for an abortion they don’t approve of, but the only alternative in today’s political reality is for people who would rather the abortion had taken place to be stuck with the welfare tax bite of more than 1000 times the cost of the abortion. Ideally, no one should be forced to fund government transfer payments to individuals for things they don’t approve of, but until we can completely dismantle the welfare state, that’s not an available option as far as this particular issue is concerned.

[KantianBurke]

Pretty tawdry reasoning. You’re presupposing that the majority of women who get abortions are on welfare and are angling for another govt check. And even if that were the case, you’re assuming that those kids will inevitably be a drag on society. Many people born into broken homes have successful lives, both financially and career wise.

[Campion]

IOW, you believe in “shrinking government” by exterminating the poor.

[Alberta's Child]

I'd have far more respect for that position if you just came right out and said that abortion should be mandatory for all welfare recipients.

That's the underlying reason why we have abortion anyway -- so why be shy about it?

[Fierce Allegiance]

The simple fact is that the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies that don’t end in abortion will result in a huge tab to the taxpayer for welfare,

Even if it is true, it's a crap argument. Don't argue that abortion is cool because of some other screwed up government program.

[Graymatter]

Ideally, no one should be forced to fund government transfer payments to individuals for things they don’t approve of, but until we can completely dismantle the welfare state, that’s not an available option as far as this particular issue is concerned.

Oh, right, ideally we shouldn't have to kill people, but it's easier than backing away from socialism.

In fact, my understanding of socialism is that we will have to kill more than babies eventually, because socialism will expand and it won't be feasible until we start killing old people and children and handicapped too. And those will only be stopgap measures.

But you know this. Only in the ideal world can we not massacre millions for socialism.

Planet Stalin: where mass murder is an "available option," unlike dismantling the welfare state.

[N3WBI3]

The simple fact is that the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies that don’t end in abortion will result in a huge tab to the taxpayer for welfare, food stamps, public schooling (for the child of a non-taxpayer), Medicaid, and on and on.

Source? Given that for generations unwanted pregnancies were carried to term and produced productive law abiding citizens the burden of proving such an assertion is on you.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The simple fact is that the vast majority of unwanted pregnancies that don’t end in abortion will result in a huge tab to the taxpayer for welfare, food stamps, public schooling (for the child of a non-taxpayer), Medicaid, and on and on.

Get rid of these handouts and women will think twice before opening their legs.