They are precious to me also, but since we can't stop some people from overbreeding, abortion is a distasteful alternative to a larger welfare, criminal and liberal state..IMO.You are welcome to your opinion, I hope you have travelled near and far to see the real effects of overpopulation and unwanted children, including street urchins who grow up to be adults...
That said, the issue I was addressing was the relevance of abortion as a live issue in California, specifically, the taxpayer funding of same.
It's nice to have principles to not put a price on the "lives" of those who are aborted, but without state sponsored abortions, we will end up with more state sponsored and taxpayer financed parents and children...which evil is worse, unwanted aborted "babies" as you call them or unwanted grown up adults? of course we could resort to the age old practice of infantcide which is accepted in some cultures....I am not here to mandatorily pay for someone else's responsibilities, I may choose to do it on my own...if society cares to do it through charity it is one thing, but through forced payments for welfare and schools, I think not.. For those that want to oulaw abortion, make it tied to a law requiring those having children to be responsible for them...do away with welfare and let them fend for themselves like in other countries...
What the state funds and doesn't fund with tax dollars is an entirely separate issue.