Before abortion got the federal stamp of approval, before contraception became widely available, the country wasn't awash with unwanted babies. It was awash with women who kept their knees together, because they were afraid of the very real consequences of sex. The country was awash with men who knew "baby" means "18 years of responsibility," if nothing else. The numbers back me up. The staggering number of children who are in some form of foster care, the holocastal number of babies slaughtered in the womb--compare the numbers of today with those of yesteryear, before birth control was easily accessible.
Maybe "awash" doesn't mean what you think it means.
“It was awash with women who kept their knees together, because they were afraid of the very real consequences of sex.”
And knowing what you know of young American women today, what in Gods’ name makes you think that they will A) give up the freedoms that they have secured since the 1960’s and B) Would choose to kepp their knees together? Frankly you ought ot live in the here, the now and the real.
Besides, a country that depends on immigrant labor to keep its social security system from sinking even faster shouldn’t count any native baby unwanted.
“before contraception became widely available, the country wasn’t awash with unwanted babies.”
True, but if you’re saying that’s how it would be after banning all these things, you’re wrong.
The mindset now is “sex-sex-sex”, so yes, at least initially, we would probably be “awash in babies”. People used to screwing any time they want aren’t going to just stop because they have no BC or abortion.