Abortion

Economically, it doesn't make as much sense to have an abortion, especially if we want to continue entitlement programs, such as social security. We have millions of Baby boomers who have retired, or will be retiring within the near future. If we want to lessen the burden on ourselves, and on our children, it makes sense to have more children to pay into the programs. The more people that are paying into the program, the less an individual actually has to pay. Furthermore, we have an unbelievable amount of debt. Someone is going to have to pay this off, to avoid complete economic meltdown. People used to have several kids, on the single income of the father. It is difficult (I know, because I lived it). However, it surely is not impossible. You will have to pay the costs of raising a child, however, you can get tax breaks, and, depending on the state, you may be eligible for programs such as school vouchers, to lessen the costs of school. In the end, you will have to make sacrifices. You may not have two new cars, or expensive vacations, but economically speaking, having kids obviously make sense All you have to do is look at any European country to see the effects of abortion, and low fertility rates as the result of abortion. The people are getting older, and less people are paying into public retirement programs or other entitlement programs. Soon, these countries will be in serious trouble (as if they weren't already). No one will be able to take care of the elderly, and they won't have any money (save for whatever savings they may have), and there will be a complete economic collapse as a result of the debt of the euro. If people continue to abort their children here in America, we will continue to go down this same path. But the question arises: What about the women on welfare. That's where it gets messy. If you look back to a time when the economy was good, and there weren't so many single women or families on welfare, you have to look at how people lived. Women didn't get pregnant in high school, when they weren't married, and weren't in any state to get pregnant. They wait until they were married, and had a husband with a good job, and then they had children. Now, women selfishly get pregnant, when they can't afford it, and aren't married, when they easily could have either abstained, or used a form of birth control. So, you may say that is all fine and dandy, but what is the solution? Should abortion be allowed for poor women, and does it make sense, economically? The solution isn't easy by any means. The problem is, we need jobs, but we also need people. People to pay off the debt that has been racked up, and to help pay for these expensive entitlement programs. While women can't afford to have kids, we can't afford to follow in Europe's footsteps. What has to be done is, end abortion, because we can't afford to kill off the next generation of Americans, who are needed to help avoid complete economic collapse. It's horrible to look at human life that way, that they are only useful economically. But from an economic standpoint, it's true. If you're a poor woman, don't get pregnant. Use a form a contraception. If you do happen to get pregnant, many Catholic hospitals will help you have the child, and take the child into an adoption facility, with little to no cost from you. It makes more sense this way, rather then to allow abortions, not only to poor women, but to any woman, and have a serious population problem in the future. Not over population, under population. It can and will happen. Don't think it won't.