I think we are still somehow on different pages. Let me put it into the simplest possible terms (no offense intended).
Me: I don't like abortion, I would rather we adopt.
PTLIS: Fuck you! With your ideas, my adopted friend wouldn't have been adopted!
Me: Er ... I would actually rather that they all be adopted, rather than aborted...
PTLIS: I'm not actually against abortion, I would just rather we adopt.
Me: er... that's exactly what I said... twice. I'm confused.
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Okay, now that that's out of the way.
Here is a link to a pro-life website Listing the number of abortions from 1973 - 1998. These numbers are probably exagerated, but that's okay. Even if we cut them in half, they still support my point.
http://www.prolife.ie/news/news-population-0004.html
In 1998, their study estimated that 1,365,730 abortions were performed. Cut that in half (I seriously doubt they were overestimating by 100%, but who cares), and we get 682,865 abortions.
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Here is a link to the National Center for Policy Analysis. I think they get money to look at various policies and compile statistics for them. I don't really know, it's just the first thing that popped up in Yahoo that fit what I was looking for, and it sounds official.
http://www.ncpa.org/pi/welfare/pd091101a.html
Basically I linked to a memo or press release or something about the adoption system. It says adoptions are on the rise.
Quote:
Nearly 50,000 foster children were adopted in fiscal 2000 -- up from 46,000 in 1999.
Now, I'm a bit shady on doing math in my head sometimes, but it seems to me that 682,865 abortions are alot more than 50,000 adoptions.
Also in the article:
Quote:
Roughly 134,000 children in foster care are free for adoption at present. Experts say that older children are the most difficult to place.
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That is my point. Our system simply couldn't handle the number of children that would probably be put into the adoption system if they wern't aborted.
If we assume that the Pro-Life study overestimated the number of abortions by 100%, and that only 1/8 of the children aborted would be put up for adoption, then thats still more than One-and-a-Half times the number of children adopted in 2000.
I doubt the number of adoptions has gone down, it's probably gone up. But, then, the number of abortions has probably gone up alot faster.