As long as the Republicans think they can string us along to reliably vote for them they have no interest in actually finally definitively solving the abortion issue. They keep it as the carrot just out of reach. Now there are some good pro-life Republican politicians, and almost no good pro-life Democratic politicians, but the power elites of the Republican party just want our votes election after election. Best way to keep those votes is to stretch the issue out for decades. Get us to support their candidates who talk a good talk but do next to nothing. Because if they did something would we support all of the other junk? Would they ever win again?
What IS the solution on the abortion issue anyway?
If we outlaw it, we had better be prepared to treble the social welfare state, because we will have 1.75 million new welfare babies every year, year after year, all of whom have to be clothed, fed, housed, educated and provided medical care. And then, eventually, they have to have jobs. There's your cheap exploitable labor pool, I guess: close the borders.
And there is, also, a federal income tax rate of 50%, plus another 7% of state taxes, to pay for all of that. So, how many Christian Republicans are in for a 57% average tax rate? Because that's what outlawing abortion will cost.
Me? I'm for that, actually. But Republicans will never be willing to accept a social welfare superstate in order to pay for the inevitable results of banning abortion.
What the Republican religious right proposes is to ban abortion and simply impose the burden of "Personal Responsibility" on the irresponsible mothers. Which means, of course, impose starvation and death on a half-million babies a year, whose mothers can't or won't do what must be done.
Yeah, when reality meets rhetoric, it's pretty ugly. Also, please note, the ranks of the handicapped will burgeon. Today, most severely handicapped babies are aborted in the womb. Outlaw abortion, and the requirement for Medicaid for a tripling or quadrupling of the severely handicapped will be required. Unless of course we're willing to force them to be born only to watch them die.
That is no more Christian than abortion.
In for a penny, in for a pound.
If I were King, I would outlaw abortion and impose the taxes to fully pay the social costs. I'd also understand that the costs were so crippling that overseas military deployment was no longer possible, and that the armed forces would have to be slashed by 50%, at least, just to free up the money necessary to support the burgeoning population of poor and sick people.
Remember, the "no abortion" model already exists: in Latin America, in Muslim Africa and in the Muslim Middle East. Where there is oil wealth, the people live tolerably well with massive social welfare. Where there isn't...well...the Muslim African countries have the lowest life spans in the world.
Latin America has higher life spans. There, the women take things into their own hands, government is lax and weak, and illegal abortion is de rigeur, so abortion is illegal, the poor population is bigger, but the abortion rate is still quite substantial, because people break the law.
Pick your poison.
And don't pretend there's a good solution. They all suck.
