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[quote=Anonymous]What a messed-up way to think about it.

My guess is no.  Currently, most women who have abortions are already mothers.  They are unlikely to give up their additional baby for adoption, even if keeping the baby results in serious financial or other hardship for their family.  The result will be a lot of unnecessary suffering, but not many babies up for adoption.

Another category of people who abort is people whose fetuses have abnormalities or conditions that mean they are either unlikely to make it to birth or are unlikely to survive long after birth or who are likely to have severe birth defects or disabilities.  Again, a lot of unnecessary suffering and unlikely to result in adoptable babies.

A third (perhaps overlapping) category of abortions is people for whom carrying to term is very risky.  These people, assuming they don't die during pregnancy or childbirth, and assuming it's not a stillbirth, are not likely to put their baby up for adoption.

I suppose the dream is that a lot of (white) teens and young adults will get pregnant and put their babies up for adoption?  Some might, I suppose, but given that there is less of a stigma against unwed mothers, it seems unlikely that you'll see a huge increase.  It's as or more likely that they'll keep the baby (perhaps having to drop out of school or having their educations curtailed), and that they or their families will raise it.  [/quote]

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