Originally Posted by
Amanda
It certainly is possible that the rising birth rate that would come if abortion was criminalized would end paying for the costs that would come from an abortion prohibition....eventually. Keep in mind that it would be a minimum of 16 years until the additional children born would be taxpayers. Until that day came, the prohibition would present nothing but expenses....and tremendous expenses at that.
Honestly I have my doubts as to whether the additional taxpayers born in the face of an abortion ban would be able to counter the costs of prohibition. Every time a prohibition is enacted, its supporters project the net cost savings society will eventually enjoy. Certainly that has not been the case with the War on Drugs. It swallows up a higher share of taxpayer dollars each additional year, with zero results. Trying to legislate the laws of supply and demand out of existence will always be an exercise in futility.
Protecting a culture of life by thrusting government death squads on lawbreakers, as Diesel Grinch suggested, is a betrayal of both limited government power and valuing human life, both of which the political right claims to hold at the top of their political agenda. If basic components of a civilized society are upheld, as opposed to the police state tyranny of China, prohibitions will always fail. The poor choices of the masses are a cost of personal freedom, and I'm generally willing to accept that cost.
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