# abortion rights, womens rights? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [November 24, 2008, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-rights-womens-rights/474358 "2008-11-24T23:52:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 128
**Author:** ![Vihaga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Vihaga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Vihaga)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-rights-womens-rights/474358/128 "2008-12-11T19:12:04Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Well, I’ve been told by several anti-abortionists that people having abortions ar selfishly robbing people who want to adopt. I asked this question of the pro-life contingent in another thread: > [@McCain does want to overturn Roe V Wade](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mccain-does-want-to-overturn-roe-v-wade/468147/14): > > I don’t want to hijack too much, but I’ve always wondered about this: what do the pro-lifers want to do about all the babies that would result if people stopped getting abortions? The most recent data I can find indicated that in 2004, 839,226 legal abortions were performed in the US. ([CDC link](http://www.cdc.gov/reproductivehealth/data_stats/index.htm#Abortion)) The Republicans haven’t traditionally been the party that supports welfare for these kids, the mothers don’t want them, and the first adoption stats I could find (from the [US dept of Health and Human Services](http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/cb/stats_research/index.htm)) seem to indicate that a little more than 51,000 adoptions were recorded in the US in 2007 (and previous years were similar). > > Not to be cold or pragmatic, but what the hell are we going to do with 788,000 unwanted children every year? It was a hijack, so I didn’t really expect an answer, but looking at those numbers, I don’t think we’re going to come up with 788,000 adoptive parents _per year_. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/abortion-rights-womens-rights/474358)._