Romania found out about this under Ceausescu. Outlaw abortion, you get a glut of unwanted children who are abandoned and then become wards of the state. That led to some of the most disgusting child trafficking ever seen. We don't learn from history in America.
We don't need to learn from Romanian history, we just need to look at our own history before Roe V Wade, where unwanted babies were commonly killed in secret and had their bodies dropped into rivers or outhouses or buried anonymously or incinerated, and women with unwanted pregnancies would more often have complications from "back alley" abortions that rendered them infertile, scarred, or even killed them.
Banning abortion only ends up killing babies and mothers and the unwanted babies that survive usually become criminals because they grow up without support or guidance in a country with no social safety nets to help them.
Maybe Im a conspiracy theorist or something but I feel like thats their goal. There's no way in hell repubs are dumb enough to not know that this is the result, but it's a double win. They get more kids in foster care receiving subpar education (Republicans love uneducated people, Trump said it himself) who turn into adults completely unprepared for life. Poor people with no way of having learned financial literacy stuck in dead end blue collar jobs with no confidence or aspirations of achieving more, taking out predatory loans, convinced that the root of their issues are gay and brown people not the government setting them up for failure.
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u/AValentineSolutions Aug 27 '24
Romania found out about this under Ceausescu. Outlaw abortion, you get a glut of unwanted children who are abandoned and then become wards of the state. That led to some of the most disgusting child trafficking ever seen. We don't learn from history in America.