[kabar]

Beyond the moral question, there are public policy issues associated with abortion being used as a birth control method. Most of the European countries are experiencing declining populations and a growing influx of immigrants, many from Islamic countries. I would like to see a breakdown, by religious and ethnic groups in the UK, on the use of abortion. While lives are being snuffed out, the seeds of future decline are being sown.

[Mark in the Old South]

Not just birth rates for the native population. There are those in this country who will always put their creature comfort first and foremost and complain about your or my moralizing. You see it here among conservatives just about as much as among dims. Some think abortion should take a back seat to Social Security Reform. There is no reform that will keep up with a dwindling population of workers supporting the retired population. 2 young and low pay workers will not always tolerate supporting an elderly person who is far better off then the people who support them.

If you want to fix SS than you have to factor in the wage earning population.

[combat_boots]

"...from Islamic countries..."

who do not use contraception. 7, 8, 13 children by age 35 are not uncommon, even here in the US, among such immigrants.