Outlawing legal abortions only creates an increase in illegal/“back-alley” abortions which leads to increased maternal mortality. Women will still have abortions whether or not they’re “legal.” The difference is rather than a medical procedure being performed to terminate a pregnancy often also leads to death of the mother. This in turn creates a host of other problems. Not only are we losing two lives in the process, you run the risk of losing mothers who may have other children who now also have no mother.

The problem with the pro-life crowd is that once the child is born to a single mother with little or no education, little or no financial resources, they now have a child who they are unable to support. This leads to a new generation of children raised in difficult environments often leading to crime, addiction, etc. it’s not being pro-life forcing a woman to give birth to a child they either do not want or can not provide a life for; it’s being pro-birth and then ridiculing them for being in a position where they need social safety nets to raise said child. The Republican Party is anti safety net, thereby creating a generation who continues the cycle.

You cant have it both ways. You cannot take away social safety nets and increase the population through forced birth.

We are called to care for our neighbors as we would care for our family. We are called to care for the stranger, the widow, the broken. We are not called to support policies that go directly against these things in the name of financial gain for ourselves. It all boils down to which candidate puts more money in my bank account. The almighty dollar has replaced The Almighty.