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[quote=Anonymous]Rich people have always been able to procure abortion access.
There will be more middle class babies born but since the stigma regarding illegitimacy has largely gone away, those women will keep their children instead of placed for adoption.   Unfortunately, that will result in a greater decline of the middle class and widening income inquality, plus greater instability for kids as their young unmarried parents either fail to marry or marry and divorce quickly.   And the sickeningly dismissive ACB statement during Dobbs that "safe haven" laws were the best for everyone was staggering in how it ignored the impact on both the woman who had given birth AND on the abandoned child.   (It truly was a 1950s throwback to the era when young women were forced to endure the health risks of unwanted pregnancies and a generation of adoptees were told they needed to "get over" the pain of abandonment and just feel "lucky".)  And while there will likely be no appreciable increase in the number of healthy children available for adoption, there WILL be a large number of special needs kids relinquished to the state, as many women will not be able to provide for those children.  And while there is no shortage of judgmental evangelicals waxing eloquent about the glories of adoption, there are far fewer willing to put their own finances and family structures on the line in order to take care of children with tremendous and life long physical and/or mental challenges.  [/quote]

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