On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:11:16 -0800 (PST), Alistair
<alistair@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>Not 1.5 million. What would you rather have: 1.5 million abortions (at
>an early stage) or to be taxed at a level to allow 1.5 million extra
>children to be raised in orphanages at a reasonable standard of care?
>At 60,000 dollars a year per child that represents 90 million dollars
>per annum. Assuming that you pay tax then you, and other workers, have
>to find 18 (years of care) * 90 million dollars extra tax which
>amounts to roughly 1800 million dollars each year. Happy?
For someone who believes a fetus is a person, you can change your
question to be about infants instead of fetuses. (Phillip K Dick
wrote a short story where the legal age of abortion was raised to
something like 12 years old). If such an argument is unpalatable,
consider how these people accept it as written.
Of course, I don't see that most pro-life people treat *all* fetuses
(much less embryos) as people. Many allow some abortions in non
life-threatening situations (rape or *****). Funerals and burials
on sanctified ground are extremely rare, and distinction between early
embryonic miscarriages, still born births and early infant deaths are
very real.
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