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I think there's a more pragmatic issue here, though. Even if the ideal situation is one in which people act in their own best interest all the time, we know from millenia of experience that this is impossible. In the end, although perhaps its a hard pill to swallow for some people, its orders of magnitude cheaper to prevent lower socioeconomic class children from being born, if the parents don't want them. They are much higher to require medicaid and go to prison, two of the most expensive things a government can do for a person. Birth control and abortions are negligibly inexpensive compared to these. Moral argument aside, the actuarial benefits are unassailable.