[Spok]

I am adamantly pro-life for moral and religious reasons, but it has occurred to me that women who get abortions may be making a positive Darwinian contribution to the gene pool. I mean, would it hurt humanity if Gloria Steinem had her tubes tied?

[Hodar]

I am adamantly pro-life for moral and religious reasons, but it has occurred to me that women who get abortions may be making a positive Darwinian contribution to the gene pool.

This is a valid argument. Who is more likely to be a criminal, an unwanted child, who grows up in a violent, drug using, promiscuous home, born to a single, uneducated and unprepared mother; OR a child who is wanted and can be raised by responsible parents?

Simply look at the statistics of who has more abortions, then look at the environment these unwanted children would be growing up in. To remove emotion from the equation, you simply pay a little for an abortion up front, or pay a lot later to prosecute the criminal later(plus the untold number of victims who have been killed, maimed or robbed).

[FITZ]

women who get abortions may be making a positive Darwinian contribution

If babies are adopted into nice middle class families, they have a very good chance of doing well in life. I know quite a few people who were given up for adoption and are now wonderful parents themselves.