BBut otoh, it should be harder than it has been. Again somewhere in the middle. We have a tendency in this country to change laws from one extreme to the other or not change things enough at one time. With stricter abortion laws, there should be more funding into free birth control (in areas where it’s not available), sex education, women’s and children’s healthcare. Adoption should be made to be a more desirable option. The sheer cost of it alone makes it hard for couples to adopt. Perhaps there should be government assistance with that.
Another number that gets thrown around are the 400,000 kids in foster care. Only about 100,00 are available for adoption. Still a lot but not 400,000. The foster care system includes a lot of children that they are trying to reunite with their family. For some that is good, for others not so much. Perhaps the whole system needs to be revamped. Perhaps it is the best we can do. But it seems like perhaps a good time to look at it.
For every baby that is put up for adoption there are something like 20 couples that apply to adopt. And that is what we are talking about here, babies.
I am not even sure where you are going with the “birth as easy as drinking a glass of water” comment. Birth can be and many times is a very easy process. And it can be dangerous for the mother. And it can be, and usually is, somewhere in the middle.
1. How much harder does it need to be? One has to walk through protestors (at many clinics), being yelled at and ridiculed for their choice. One has to read a packet of information on what the abortion entails, and in many states (IDK how many), have to return to the clinic 24 hours later so that the information has had a chance to sink in. One is strapped to a table (at least ankles, but I've heard of thighs as well), given medication to numb (but not block all sensation), and then one waits. After, one is helped to stand, given instructions on what to do, and then is escorted out of the building, back into that crowd of protestors, who are now even more vicious in their comments. There is pain...physical and emotional and mental. An abortion is not something to take lightly. But it's utter crud that people are allowed to harass other people that way outside a medical clinic; there's no mandatory 24 hour waiting period to get an IUD or a tooth pulled or breast augmentation surgery; only for an abortion.
2. Yeah, let's give free birth control! I'm all for that. But when the young girl goes to the clinic above to pick up those pills or get their shot, they have to wade through those protestors, and they are just as vicious to those girls getting BCP as they are with those getting an abortion. After all, how can they tell whose who? Most women getting an abortion are not getting one when they are showing a pregnancy, so how can you tell who is just getting BCP and who is getting an abortion? You can't. So they harass everyone. And the government keeps removing funding for those free birth control clinics, and women/children care clinics, and forget sex education...the old men in charge want it to be abstinance only. Do you really think that a 16 year old boy or girl will say "oh hey, I can't have sex until I married because old man says so"? Nope, they will do it anyways, but without the information that a condom can prevent an STD or that no BC is 100% effective.
ETA: Sometimes there are videos involved in the process. I forgot to mention those.
3. Those babies grow up into toddlers, who still need homes. Where are the people adopting them? Those toddlers grow up into children, who still need homes. Where are the people adopting them? Those children grow up to be teenagers, who still need homes. Where are the people adopting them? 100,000 kids in an adoptable system, but how many really get adopted? And those that aren't able to be adopted? Where are the people helping to raise them?
The entire system is broken. And again, I'll say to you, my uterus, my business.