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Per https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-unite... we do over 800k abortio
by btilly 6y ago
Per https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-united-states https://www.guttmacher.org/fact-sheet/induced-abortion-unite... we do over 800k abortions per year in the USA.
Per https://adoptionnetwork.com/adoption-myths-facts/domestic-us-statistics/ https://adoptionnetwork.com/adoption-myths-facts/domestic-us... we adopt around 135k babies per year in the USA.
If we introduce this technology and don't make other changes, the supply of fetuses for adoption will substantially exceed the supply of adoptive homes.
- Thorrez 6y ago>exceed the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptions happening per year doesn't actually tell you the supply of adoptive homes. The number of adoptive homes might be much much larger than the number of adoptions that happens. Especially if potentially adoptive parents are no longer scared away by multi-year waiting lists. If we add in government subsidization of adoption expenses, or even pay adoptive parents, the number of adoptive parents could grow a lot. Some countries are already paying parents to have biological kids[1]; paying parents to adopt seems even more likely. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_bonus