Many questions need to be answered before abortion outlawed

I am pro-life so when I heard the Supreme Court was about to overturn Roe V Wade, I felt panic. We aren’t ready. We don’t have the infrastructure.

There are about 640,000 abortions in the U.S. each year. Some abortions are performed to save of the mother, so let’s guess about 600,000 new babies each year. It costs at least $25,000 for delivery which means an extra $15 BILLION a year just for delivery of all those babies. Who will pay?

Adoption? It cost $25 to $45 thousand to adopt a baby. There are 153,000 adoptions a year, but 60% of them are not babies but stepchildren. So that is about 61,000 babies that are adopted. Even if you triple the babies adopted that still leaves over 400,000 babies who are not adopted each year.

Fathers? How do we find them? DNA test every man and see who matches and then garnish his pay? Sixty percent of abortions are from married couples who are already making a Sophie’s choice of taking care of the children they have or the one she is pregnant with. If they had the money, they would give birth.

That leaves the taxpayers. All women of childbearing age should have Medicaid with excellent pregnancy coverage. Of course, delivery is just the start. 600,000 new babies will need healthcare, daycare, housing, preschool, and excellent schools. The real cost will be more like $150 billion a year.

All this needs to be in place before any state outlaws abortion.

MARY HALEY

Sandpoint