[ronald_reagan]

How would the 1 million plus abortions that are performed every year affect our population and ways of life?

Can you imagine introducing 1 million extra people into our society every year. There are people out there that cannot get jobs. How many more would be out of work, homeless and on the streets if those extra million were in society.

On paper, what you are saying makes good sense. but it doesn't really work that way. The unconscience mind of the nation would limit population growth. And since you didn't get into the ethics of it, we'll talk only in the pretense that abortion is ok in both of our minds, for this point.

I think the last numbers I've saw, placing the number of abortions at 30,000,000 since 1973. Now, what woudl happen is, many of those moms would ended up having kids later in life. Especially those who did it the 70's and 80's. A very close family member of mine had an abortion in the early 70's in Ohio, today she has 1 kid, whom she had a few years later. She says that if she had had the first child, she wouldn't have had the second. So the rate of growth in population wouldn't change by an extra 30,000,000. There's also an arguement to be made that we'd have an extra 20-30 million on the tax rolls as well, thus helping the budget deficit, and ESPECIALLY the social security account (due to the low ratio of workers to retirees at this moment).

Another interesting fact, and this may be taken as racist, and regarded as highly controversial. Starting in the early 1990's, our nation saw a dramatic and sustained drop in crime that lasts even until today. One school of thought, of which I happen to agree with, is that the reason for this reduction is crime is that, abortions disproportionately affect minority populations. African American women are many times more likely to have one, and all stats show that crime is disproportionately apart of the minority population. In the early 1990's, these first victims of abortion would have been roughly 'crime committing age'. Thus, not in existance, couldn't commit the crime. Will this pattern continue? And is abortion worth it? I hope so, and I hope not.