Being born is a minuscule fraction in the equation of life. What matters is the first eighteen years that come afterward. It's the foundation for the cascade of years that follows. Picture a puppy being dragged to its cage in an animal shelter and ponder what happens to unwanted children. There are over 400,000 children in foster care and orphanages in the United States today. California alone has 80,000. It's a myth that there are ample qualified parents waiting to adopt. Adoptive parents are picky. They want one fresh and clean and perfect. Many spend thousands and fly overseas to find one. There were 1.4 million abortions in the US in 2011. Unterminated unwanted pregnancies become unwanted children. Criminalize abortion by repealing Roe vs Wade and the resulting surge in births will explode into a population of wards of the court, statutory orphans for the state to raise. Who will love these boys and girls when their biological parents walk away? What kind of childhood will they have? Who will teach them to ride a bike or throw a ball? What will birthdays and Christmases be like in a children's home or foster care? Who will cheer for them at report card time, at sports events or the school play? A foster child will never know what it means to come home for the holidays. Home is where family is, where your things are, where someone makes your favorite dish or dessert, just for you. Home is where you feel loved. When a foster child sits down to a meal he or she is merely a boarder whose rent is paid by the state. There are exceptions, but the rule is foster care can only give an illusion of family. It's a second-class scenario at best when you sit down at each meal looking across at the "real" son or daughter. Nothing has to be said. A nonverbal message is absorbed over time, robbing you of self-esteem. What kind of adulthood do you think lies ahead for one who was cast-off as a child? Do you care? Should you care? Where do you think the

If Roe v Wade were repealed the annual cost to the taxpayer is $1.3 trillion. And that's not counting the cost of building the orphanages it will take to house the unwanted children that were formerly unwanted pregnancies (see below for the total $12.4 trillion 18 year cost.) They'll need a roof. Foster Care is already overloaded. In Mexico, the Philippines, India and Brasil abortion's illegal or strictly controlled and hoardes of abandoned kids roam the streets begging, stealing, prostituting, drug dealing. Is this what we want for America? Unwanted pregnancies become unwanted children. You can't legislate the desire to have a child; so the unwanteds will be handed over to the state. Or they'll be shuffled around and mistreated and eventually end up in an orphanage or foster care or juvenile detention. Criminalizing abortion is not saving lives; it's depriving unwanted children of their birthright, the primal love of devoted parents, condemning them to self-doubt and despair. Loving parents are foundational to a strong society. Forcing women to have unwanted children is no way to get there. The total total tab, counting what it costs to build the 360,000 orphanages required to house the 25.2 million unwanted children, is $12.4 trillion over the first 18 years. (The average orphanage that houses 70 kids will cost about $1.3 million.) The data: a. Annual abortions 1,400,000 b. Avg years of care 18 c. Cumulative # in care (a*b) 25,200,000 d. Annual cost per child $50,000 e. Annual budget (c*d) $1,260,000,000,000 That's right, $1.3 trillion a year, every year, without counting capital costs, crime and other social costs.