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Originally Posted by goaliegirl
Lets say all of the 100,000 women who have an abortion every year in Canada decided to carry to term, lets say half of those decided to give up for adoption, do you really think there would be 50,000 adoptive parents out there every year who would be looking to adopt an infant? Eventually supply would exceed demand and you would start to see orphanages popping up to house all these unwanted children.
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I really don't think it would work out like that. Before abortions were legal women were a lot more careful about the choices they made. Now I realize not all pregnancies can be traced back to irresponsible behavour; Condoms do brake and there is rape. But I bet if you looked the majority of unwanted pregnancies are the result of poor choices. I contend that if she knew that a pregnancy meant morning sickness, getting fat, followed by a painful delivery less unwanted pregnancies would occur.
Moreover, when they did occur you would see his or her parents or extended family often step foreward to raise the child. Most babies would never see an orphanage. This is what commonly happened during our grandparents day.
Finally, I've know people raised in an orphanage and they didn't appear any less happy about being alive than you or I am.