Conservatives: if abortion were made illegal, would you be willing to fund orpha
By karpatzio
@karpatzio (106)
Israel
May 21, 2009 10:29am CST
There are about 800,000 abortions per year. The estimated cost of caring for a child is about $10,000 per child per year (on the low end -- assuming we keep kids at the poverty line).
This means that the first year alone the cost would be about $8 billion. It would rise each year for the next 18 years thereafter as the number of orphaned children grew, until it reached an annual cost of $144,000,000,000.
Would you be willing to use your tax dollars to pay that?
(please note, I'm not trying to attack anyone -- I merely want to know if the issue is vital enough to you all that you'd be willing to spend your tax dollars on it. And my apologies to pro-choice conservatives; this question is not directed at you.)
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@maximax8 (31046)
• United Kingdom
21 May 09
I am pro-life and I wouldn't ever have an abortion. I am not sure which political party I support. In my home country it is possible for ladies to have abortions on the National Health Scheme. I would happily pay tax to care for unwanted babies and children. I am a parent so I know how much is costs to raise a child. I think of aborted babies as the missing people of the world. It would be wonderful if abortion become illegal. However it would be likely back street abortions would take place and that might be dangerous.
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@reckon21 (3479)
• Philippines
23 Apr 10
This is really a big and serious issue. Abortion and always will never be the ultimate solution to contain or control population in this world we live in. Parents could have a proper plan on how many children they could afford to raise. they should use contraceptive methods to eliminate the chance of having unwanted babies.
Abortion is a means of killing and that is not right at all. Those babies could be our best people yet to come but then we already eliminated them by giving them no chance to live and proved themselves.
Abortion is killing and killing is a sin.
@laglen (19759)
• United States
13 Apr 10
Yes. That is one government program that I could get on board for. But in the past, churches have run orphanages. I believe that as a group effort, it could be a lot more fiscally obtainable. You would also cut down on the pregnancies when women find out they would actually have to carry and give birth. It just might bring back a little accountability back. 
@pelastikbintang (325)
• Malaysia
22 May 09
i am willing to fund the orphan..if i have any money :P
but i'm really against abortion. we don't have the right to take a life of a child that wanna see this world.
@amypalm (3)
• United States
24 May 09
There are a couple things that I would like to point out to you:
Those 800,000 babies that are dying each year, if they were instead put up for adoption, taken care of by the biological parents, or even put into foster care, those children would eventually grow up and become adults. They would most likely go to college, get a job, and eventually pay back their debt to society. Are we receiving anything back from our investment of nearly $350,000 annually to Planned Parenthood?
Not every child that is saved from abortion goes into foster care. In fact, I have personally witnessed hundreds of women who have changed their minds about abortion throughout the years, and I could count on one hand... in fact, just a couple fingers, how many of their children are in foster care.
Last of all, how can you put a price on a child. Seriously? Would you be able to walk into a daycare facility with 30 children (lets say they're all foster children, who haven't yet found adoptive parents) could you look each one in the eye, and then give them a lethal injection simply because we can't afford them? There are over 30 abortions in the US every 10 minutes.
