[LWalk18]

Did you ever stop to consider the possibility that if abortion was outlawed, the number of "unwanted" babies being born would actually go down?

There might be a correlation between higher "unwanted" births and higher abortions, but that doesn't mean that the availability of abortion causes the higher "unwanted" birthrate- which is hard to calculate anyway. Abortion is far from the only social change to happen in the last thirty years.

[puroresu]

#####There might be a correlation between higher "unwanted" births and higher abortions, but that doesn't mean that the availability of abortion causes the higher "unwanted" birthrate- which is hard to calculate anyway. Abortion is far from the only social change to happen in the last thirty years.#####


True, it's only a theory that legalizing abortion increases the "unwanted" birthrate. No studies have ever been done, to the best of my knowledge.

But the explosion in illegitimacy and births to unmarried teen girls has certainly occurred parallel to legal abortion, which proponents of legality assured us would not happen. Legal abortion was supposed to make "every child a wanted child". When abortion was illegal, cities didn't have to set up safe haven drop-off spots for "unwanted" babies in hopes their mothers wouldn't just toss them in a dumpster or a drainage ditch.

Is there a correlation? You be the judge!