Dragonlady
Designing Woman
We are already doing that and have been doing it for years, yet abortions go up every year. Plain and simple, it's used for birth control, which is unacceptable. When there are no consequences to deter behavior, the behavior will continue, not only continue but expand and flourish. The further this country moves to the left, the more consequences are taken away. It's not a good thing, and we will pay for it down the road.
Do I understand you correctly? You want girls and women to be forced to carry children they don't want to term simply to punish them for not using birth control? Well at least you're honest about it.
So are you prepared to force the men who fathered these children to pay child support for them as their part in these consequences? Or do the boys get off scott free because boys will be boys. Why should the boys be allowed to have sex without consequences if the girls can't?
Unwanted children have lower IQ's, and higher rates of juvenile delinquency than children who are loved and wanted. Even in the womb, it appears that children can sense if they're loved and wanted. As much as I wish there were no abortions, I would rather a child grow up knowing he or she was always loved and wanted.
But yes, by all means, lets force women to bear unwanted children. That worked really well in the era before legal abortions.