If we didn't abort our children, the U.S. wouldn't need to hire illegals to work.
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Yeah but fetuses are usually aborted when it would be impossible for their parents to care for them.
So, we wouldn't have laborers, we would just have more people on welfare who refused education or work because their parents were too stupid to have kids in the first place.
Yeah, instead of having to spend billions each year on the illegal immigrant, we'd spend them on unwanted lower-class kids with messed-up lives. But hey, at least then it wouldn't be foreigners getting them.
I used to hear this argument all the time as a Catholic. If abortion were illegal, we wouldn't have illegal immigrants! If abortion were illegal, we wouldn't have divorces! If abortion were illegal, we could eat ice cream all day and frolic with ponies and never have to work!
Damn you, feminists!
Actually ... I'm willing to bet they're right. In the same way that Steven Levitt proposes (in Freakonomics ) that aborted babies would grow up to be more likely to commit crimes when they're older, I would wager that they would also be more likely to hold the low-paying, low-skill, lowest-rung-in-society jobs illegal immigrants now hold.
They're probably right. Doesn't make them any less of a tool shed, but they're probably right.
Yeah, if abortion were illegal, there wouldn't be any abortions, right? Because people NEVER do things that are illegal.
Besides, we'd just shift the anger to poor people. "Ney took er jerrrrbs!"
Either during WW2 or during the Franco Prusian war from 1870 (both wars in which France lost against the germans) the ruling Pope used a similar argument torwards the French:
"If you hadn´t used so much contraceptives, you population would have been large enough to support a larger army that could have defended france against the germans"
...except as babysitters and maids. And construction workers to build the new houses and offices needed due to the larger population. And to work in restaurants, and basically any other service industry which would be in demand due to the larger population. As population increases, so does total demand for goods, services, and labor. Remember that people born instead of being aborted wouldn't be merely robots who will work and serve the rest of us without wanting food or shelter. We would still need "illegals" to do jobs that are needed but which few Americans are willing to perform.
People have hired illegal immigrants down through the years because they work cheap. And yes, even before abortion was legal in the U.S. we were still hiring them. Still, it's good to see that fundies will never let the facts stand in the way of tying any national problem whatsoever to one of their perennial hobby horses.
Illegal immigrants are basically nothing more than modern slaves. Are you willing to sell your child into slavery.
Shit, I forgot, the bible actually supports that position
Well, it's not really fundie, but this person really needs to learn something about the causes and effects of legalized abortion, both economic and social.
That fallacy is like saying, "If there was more rape, the U.S. wouldn't need to hire illegals to work."
Legalizing rape or making abortion illegal (or both) both lead to a lot more babies.
No, because we have this little thing called automation. Because of that, a larger population does not automatically create more work and there would be even more unemployed.
But I'm guessing after seeing that as a direct result of your decision you'd stick your fingers in your ears and shout "LA LA LA IT'S BECAUSE THEY'RE LAZY!"
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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