Read the book Freakonomics. It gives the evidence showing why abortion/infantacide is in fact GOOD!
That was a great book.
"In 1966, one year after Nicolae Ceaus¸escu became the Communist
dictator of Romania, he made abortion illegal. “The fetus is the property
of the entire society,†he proclaimed. “Anyone who avoids having
children is a deserter who abandons the laws of national continuity.â€
Such grandiose declarations were commonplace during Ceaus
¸escu’s reign, for his master plan—to create a nation worthy of the
New Socialist Man—was an exercise in grandiosity. He built palaces
for himself while alternately brutalizing and neglecting his citizens.
Abandoning agriculture in favor of manufacturing, he forced many of
the nation’s rural dwellers into unheated apartment buildings. He
gave government positions to forty family members including his
wife, Elena, who required forty homes and a commensurate supply of
fur and jewels. Madame Ceaus¸escu, known officially as the Best
Mother Romania Could Have, was not particularly maternal. “The
worms never get satisfied, regardless of how much food you give
them,†she said when Romanians complained about the food shortages
brought on by her husband’s mismanagement. She had her own
children bugged to ensure their loyalty.
Ceaus¸escu’s ban on abortion was designed to achieve one of his
major aims: to rapidly strengthen Romania by boosting its population.
Until 1966, Romania had had one of the most liberal abortion
policies in the world. Abortion was in fact the main form of birth
control, with four abortions for every live birth. Now, virtually
overnight, abortion was forbidden. The only exemptions were mothers
who already had four children or women with significant standing
in the Communist Party. At the same time, all contraception and sex
education were banned. Government agents sardonically known as
the Menstrual Police regularly rounded up women in their workplaces
to administer pregnancy tests. If a woman repeatedly failed to
conceive, she was forced to pay a steep “celibacy tax.â€
Ceaus¸escu’s incentives produced the desired effect. Within one
year of the abortion ban, the Romanian birth rate had doubled. These
babies were born into a country where, unless you belonged to the
Ceaus¸escu clan or the Communist elite, life was miserable. But these
children would turn out to have particularly miserable lives. Compared
to Romanian children born just a year earlier, the cohort of children
born after the abortion ban would do worse in every measurable
way: they would test lower in school, they would have less success in
the labor market, and they would also prove much more likely to become
criminals.
The abortion ban stayed in effect until Ceaus¸escu finally lost his
grip on Romania. On December 16, 1989, thousands of people took
to the streets of Timisoara to protest his corrosive regime. Many of
the protestors were teenagers and college students. The police killed
dozens of them. One of the opposition leaders, a forty-one-year-old
professor, later said it was his thirteen-year-old daughter who insisted
he attend the protest, despite his fear. “What is most interesting is that
we learned not to be afraid from our children,†he said. “Most were
aged thirteen to twenty.†A few days after the massacre in Timisoara,
Ceaus¸escu gave a speech in Bucharest before one hundred thousand
people. Again the young people were out in force. They shouted
down Ceaus¸escu with cries of “Timisoara!†and “Down with the
murderers!†His time had come. He and Elena tried to escape the
country with $1 billion, but they were captured, given a crude trial,
and, on Christmas Day, executed by firing squad.
Of all the Communist leaders deposed in the years bracketing the
collapse of the Soviet Union, only Nicolae Ceaus¸escu met a violent
death. It should not be overlooked that his demise was precipitated in
large measure by the youth of Romania—a great number of whom,
were it not for his abortion ban, would never have been born at all."
-Freakonomics
