Want Less Abortion?

 

Fund Social Programs. That's it, that's all you gotta do. Stop making raising children a finical burden and instead create programs that regardless of someone's income make it easier for them to raise their children with or without a partner. Just like how Prohibition was a complete disaster as far as enforcement goes, trying to make it illegal on a state-level is just making a bad situation worse. Peral clutching and worrying about the business of other people is what got us to this point in the first place so stop making this about "encouraging bad behavior," and admit it was never about that in the first place and it was just you being a judgmental ass hole being self-righteous. I know most of the people proclaiming to be "Christians," have no actually read the bible, but even I in my complete ignorance think there's a part in it that says something about "The first without sin should cast a stone," meaning we've all fucked up at some point in our lives and punishing otherwise innocent children for the circumstances of their birth is non-productive or conducive to a functioning society.

For those worried their taxes will go up to fund such programs, just remember that at the time of this writing now, our government is spending billions bombing Iran in the pursuit of some non-determinate goal, meaning if we got money for bombs, why not money for children? The whole point of society is for people to come together collectively and take care of one another, yet for centuries we have been gaslit and lied to by Capitalist that it is a virtue to be a "rugged individualist," in the fear of "socialism." The thing about fear is that it is largely rooted in ignorance, and as much as I hate repeating myself I think this ignorance stems from a lack of reading or even critical thinking, people are ceding those functions to other people, people that are taking advantage of that trust and convincing the public to vote against its own self-interest. 

Other negative side effects of abortion prohibition is that regardless of whether it's legal or not, some women are going to be desperate enough to receive the service and will turn to unqualified and dangerous organizations to obtain it, so by providing it through the government and funding it you are actually reducing the amount of harm that would be done by bad actors. It's the same thing with drugs, the more you try to make something illegal, the higher the demand for whatever you're trying to restrict, and as economics has taught us, higher demand means higher prices to compensate for the risk of obtaining and distributing it. Legalize it and all of that demand is still there but because you control the environment in which it is distributed you can also collect massive taxes up front while providing a clean facility with people who can, in cases of emergency, provide aid. Another bang on benefit of legalizing these activities is that it frees up funding that went to law enforcement to further expand and improve these services, because while the numbers may sound scary at first, when you break them down over the entire population of the country they average out to costing each of something like 30 cents per year.

So in conclusion, you want less abortions to happen? Make it easier to have children by funding social programs. Eliminate means testing and make these programs universal, defund enforcement and use that money to help people who actually live in this country. The single largest factor in crime is not some innate factor of a particular portion of the population, it's the concentration of poverty and the lack of funding of schools and other community facilities that historically happen to be in neighborhoods over represented by people of color. Spend tax money on diapers and formula, not bombs.