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Mofuji posted...

If you cannot be responsible and take control of your own bodily functions, then why should I, or any tax payer, have to foot the bill for you?

Because abortions are cheaper than arresting and incarcerating people (which you would also be paying for). Being the child of a single parent is one of the strongest single predictors of criminal behaviour, especially when that single parent is already in a lower-SES situation. Why, then, should you insist that somebody outside of a stable relationship and/or financial situation give birth to a child that you'll likely end up paying to support anyway instead of funding their abortion? The abortion is generally going to be the cheaper option, if you properly analyse the costs involved.

I do quite agree that abortion should be a last resort, and that as a society we should be working to minimize the number of abortions needed (particularly improving the accessibility of birth control and permanently purging the country of the grotesque failure that is abstinence-only sex ed), but so many pro-life people completely ignore what happens after birth (or during pregnancy, since they rather conspicuously fail to lobby for accessible, quality prenatal care, in professing their love for that unborn child) and look at abortion in a vacuum. That's not good.
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