filtherton

Irresponsibility is in the eye of the beholder. You freely speculate about the societal repercussions of legalized abortion. One repurcussion that is probably more likely than your democratic party negative feedback example is in the area of criminal justice. It has been argued that legalized abortion has reduced crime overall. This makes sense, abortion is often employed by those without sufficient resources, responsibility or desire to raise a child; poor, unwanted children with irresponsible parents are more prone to criminal activity. I think that it is responsible to abort a child if you know that you can't do right by that child because it is perhaps highly likely that that child might end up being a complete drain on everything it touches. It sucks that people put themselves in a position where they have to make a choice like that. If it comes down to someone aborting a fetus because they aren't able to raise the child it may become or raising the child when they clearly lack the ability to do so, i would rather they save us all the trouble.

As for lack of education, the majority of the most ardent antiabortionists don't seem to support the education of the uneducated on the matter of birth control. Abstinence only. I would wager that sex education would have at least as large an impact on the number of abortions as criminalization.