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Until abortion became legal, women in the US struggled on the black market for abortions, suffering tremendous risk to their bodies. Now abortion is legal, however it is so heavily regulated that it has distorted the abortion market.

I say let the market decide. There is a demand for abortions and willing suppliers. Low cost, safe abortions that could be performed are not being performed. Mutually beneficial trade is being restricted. Government is a leviathan! Free market = free people!

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Hey, presumably the same reasoning applies to lethal drugs, fake passports and weapons of mass destruction!

God Bless the Free Market!

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Originally posted by orfeo
Hey, presumably the same reasoning applies to lethal drugs, fake passports and weapons of mass destruction!

God Bless the Free Market!
Amen. Gov't has no purpose other than to restrict the freedoms of good honest folk who only seek life, liberty, and the pursuit of narcotics, false documents, WMD's and fetal executions. Let the market decide, I say.

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Originally posted by telerion
Let the market decide, I say.
The market is as wise as Solomon, the first leader I'm aware of to propose post-natal abortion as a viable form of conflict resolution.

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Consider there are over 1 million abortions in the US every year. Now assuming that the overwhelming fraction of these women are only purchasing one abortion in a given year, there is enormous gains to be made by expanding their budgets constraints. If women only pay the marginal cost of an abortion, think of the money they can spend elsewhere! It would US GDP big time! Stop suffocating our country. Let the market decide.

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Originally posted by telerion
Consider there are over 1 million abortions in the US every year. Now assuming that the overwhelming fraction of these women are only purchasing one abortion in a given year, there is enormous gains to be made by expanding their budgets constraints. If women only pay the marginal cost of an abortion, think of the money they can spend elsewhere! It would US GDP big time! Stop suffocating our country. Let the market decide.
"Abortions-R-Us" Now open 24 hours. Try Our New Drive-Thru service!

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Originally posted by wib
"Abortions-R-Us" Now open 24 hours. Try Our New Drive-Thru service!

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Comes with free vacuum.

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Sometimes, I truly am ashamed to be an American.

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Originally posted by The Chess Express
Sometimes, I truly am ashamed to be an American.
So you're anti-American? Or are you just unpatriotic?

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Originally posted by wib
So you're anti-American? Or are you just unpatriotic?
Lets just say I'm against stuff like this and leave it at that.

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Originally posted by telerion
Until abortion became legal, women in the US struggled on the black market for abortions, suffering tremendous risk to their bodies. Now abortion is legal, however it is so heavily regulated that it has distorted the abortion market.

I say let the market decide. There is a demand for abortions and willing suppliers. Low cost, safe abortions that could ...[text shortened]... ly beneficial trade is being restricted. Government is a leviathan! Free market = free people!
Quite correct even with such sarcasm founded on equity reasons. If abortion is deemed a private decision, there's no reason why the market wouldn't work quite nicely.

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Originally posted by The Chess Express
Sometimes, I truly am ashamed to be an American.
I agree .. i'm ashamed you're an American too.

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Originally posted by jammer
I agree .. i'm ashamed you're an American too.
It’s self proclaimed racists like you that bring shame to this country.

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Originally posted by Palynka
Quite correct even with such sarcasm founded on equity reasons. If abortion is deemed a private decision, there's no reason why the market wouldn't work quite nicely.
I was really hoping that some of our Neoconservative Evangelical White Troglodyte's (NEWT's) would respond.

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Sounds good telerion, the situation in New Zealand is that abortions are subsidised by the government.

This means that those totally opposed to abortion are being made to pay for abortions, and back in the bad old days it was the illegality of abortions that made them so dangerous to the womans health.

You're onto it.

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