[ClearCase_guy]

Indeed! This calls out for reductio ad absurdum. If we aborted 100% of all preganancies, our costs would drop dramatically and we'd all be much better off!

[ashtanga]

We tend to forget that people, by and large, are a country's greatest resource. This may not be the case in some areas of the world where superstition and hate are the order of the day, but a well educated public is worth its weight in gold. There is some surface logic in fetacide for stupid people, or those whom we think will be stupid when we study the parents. However, when we allow the State to cease protecting the most vulnerable of us all, we open the Pandora's box of unintended consequences, chief among them the disappearance of a continued Democrat voter base. Forgive my lack of eloquence today.

[LibertarianInExile]

Not if we didn't do it retroactively. Babies aren't all that expensive--kids and seniors are. If we aborted every single baby in the U.S., we'd still have to pay social security and other "entitlements" that the Great Society managed to put into place. We'd have to kill everyone under the age of 18 and over the age of 62 to really make a significant dent, I think. :)

Why do I feel like I'm writing a "Not too brite!" article?